The Senate does not need to choose between preserving debate and reaching decisions, and restoring a modified previous question motion would help the chamber do both.

Senators who understand how to draft policy changes as terms and conditions on federal spending or revenue and frame them that way can overcome the Byrd Rule’s most subjective tests.

A step-by-step guide to how a determined majority can overcome minority obstruction without abolishing the filibuster.

This post highlights how the House can make it easier for the Senate to pass legislation.

This piece reviews the procedural tools that can shorten, structure, or otherwise discipline extended debate in the Senate.

Senate rules provide alternative ways to outlast or outmaneuver a filibuster.

This piece lays out how existing procedures can be used to move the process forward without nuking the rules.

The article explores how Senate rules shape the timing, leverage, and possible resolution of fiscal brinkmanship.