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Our bicameral legislature is dysfunctional in the US. The Senate and it's 60 votes to pass a bill filibuster rule make change too difficult. The Senate does no

Our bicameral legislature is dysfunctional in the US. The Senate and it's 60 votes to pass a bill filibuster rule make change too difficult. The Senate does not represent the country well. California has two senators, so does Wyoming. The next two years will be gridlock. It's unlikely Democrats retake the House and get sixty seats in the Senate, so divided government is what we have to look forward to. The Senate is a strong architectural advantage for Conservative politics in the US. This situation is unlikely to change. It would take a constitutional amendment to abolish the Senate and that is nigh impossible in the US. Because of this big change only happens once a generation or so.

shawn-butler 14y ago
Isn't this a good thing since it is actually representative of the divided electorate? Most polling data seems to indicate a genuinely divided nation on key legislative issues. Filibuster reform is not a constitutional crisis. If Senate Democrats refuse to tackle it when they hold the Upper chamber it's on them. Senator Jeff Merkley's gang of nine [0] seem enthusiastic about getting it done. My hope is that states will begin to take proactive roles to fill the vacuum and it is one of my greatest aggravations the extent to which the federal judiciary has expanded the power and meaning of the commerce clause to cover basically everything in order to prevent states from taking action. [0] http://bitly.com/U71kL4 http://bitly.com/U71kL4