http://www.dailyrepublic.com/opinion/statenationalcolumnists/is-it-time-to-reform-the-filibuster/ Solano County's Breaking News Source Sun, 19 May 2013 05:18:50 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.dailyrepublic.com/opinion/statenationalcolumnists/is-it-time-to-reform-the-filibuster/comment-page-1/#comment-801667 rkw895 Tue, 04 Dec 2012 02:03:22 +0000 http://www.dailyrepublic.com/?p=308758#comment-801667 Great topic; more people need to get interested in reforms. Boychuk and Mathis typically provide “point-counterpoint,” but they agree here. That shows how bad our most recent experience with the filibuster rule, more formally known as the cloture rule. Both make good points, but all directed to ending the abuses and overuse of the rule. And Boychuk makes a particularly good point when he notes that if the majority doesn’t rule, then there is no one to hold accountable for legislation; the majority can rightly blame the minority for forcing legislation to be blocked or watered down to ineffectiveness. Let the majority rule and then defend their record at the time the proper check on legislation occurs: elections.

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