This piece outlines a reform package designed to strengthen rank-and-file senators and open the floor to fuller participation. It argues for a Senate that debates more, amends more, and votes more.

This post examines how House action can affect Senate strategy and make sustained obstruction harder to maintain. It highlights the broader procedural interplay between the chambers in high-stakes legislative fights.

Senate minorities only gain leverage when they are willing to use the tools available to them. This analysis argues that procedural power means little if senators refuse to test its limits.

Senate procedure can sometimes accelerate action rather than obstruct it. This article explains how the chamber’s rules might be used to move a border bill more quickly than many observers expect.

Democrats could have already voted to begin debate on the voting rights bill if they spent less time complaining about the Senate’s rules and more time using them to achieve their goals.

All it took to change the outcome was one senator acting

Majority leader can’t prevent votes if other senators want them