> To fix this, we need to end the filibuster so Congress can actually make laws. It’s much harder to legally challenge the real laws made by Congress than the f

> To fix this, we need to end the filibuster so Congress can actually make laws. It’s much harder to legally challenge the real laws made by Congress than the fake laws made by administrative agencies. Then we need to repeal the Administrative Procedure Act, and rely on the Congressional Review Act to ferret out bad administrative rulemaking. A nice-sounding idea that actually has potential, but it's missing some crucial steps: 3. Expand the House to accommodate the near-tripling of U.S. population. 4. Streamline the House's discharge-petition procedure to sh*tcan the Hastert Rule. (The Hastert Rule, after former speaker Dennis Hastert: When the GOP controls the House, the speaker will almost never bring a bill to the floor unless the bill is supported by a majority of the Republican caucus, even if the bill would have enough total votes to pass. That effectively disenfranchises every voter in a district with a Democratic representative.) One way to ditch the Hastert Rule would be to reform the discharge-petition rule, so that signers' names would be kept secret by the clerk AND a bill would be brought to the floor with, say, 1/3 plus 1 of the House membership. 5. Reform the House districting process (as has been said elsewhere in this thread). 6. Yes, ditch the filibuster — AND the blue-slip rule that allows any senator to put an indefinite hold on a presidential nomination (e.g., as Sen. Markwayne Mullin recently did to promoting Lt. Gen. Chris Donahue to four stars). 7. Change the Senate rules to create a shotclock timer: The Senate is deemed to have approved every passed House bill and every presidential nomination if the bill or nomination isn't rejected within, say, 90 days OR there's a 60-senator vote to extend the time.