If you don't think it is obviously broken, get your head out of the sand!
In the House, one person controls absolutely which bills can come to a vote. The position of Republican speakers since Hastert, is that they will not put a bill to a vote unless enough Republicans will vote for it to pass with no Democratic support. So, bills that could pass with bipartisan support get thrown on the floor. This is not majority rule. It is absolute rule by the majority party.
In the Senate, a minority can stop any bill from coming to a vote, via the "filibuster", which has is a misnomer since no filibuster is required anymore, just a vote against cloture. This is also broken.
How can they be fixed, so that a bipartisan majority can actually pass bills?
IXP
In the House, one person controls absolutely which bills can come to a vote. The position of Republican speakers since Hastert, is that they will not put a bill to a vote unless enough Republicans will vote for it to pass with no Democratic support. So, bills that could pass with bipartisan support get thrown on the floor. This is not majority rule. It is absolute rule by the majority party.
In the Senate, a minority can stop any bill from coming to a vote, via the "filibuster", which has is a misnomer since no filibuster is required anymore, just a vote against cloture. This is also broken.
How can they be fixed, so that a bipartisan majority can actually pass bills?
IXP
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