Americans Support Senate Reform by Writing to Local Newspapers
With momentum gathering behind the Udall-Harkin-Merkley Senate rules reform proposal, concerned citizens are speaking out and the media is taking notice. This week, newspapers around the country published several letters to the editor that advocate modifying the filibuster and eliminating secret hold.
Bob Teigan of Santa Susana told the Los Angeles Times:
If there is one New Year's resolution that the Senate should seek to accomplish, it's the dramatic scaling down of the anti-democratic filibuster. Let's face it, the Senate is the place where good legislation goes to die and the will of the electorate is ignored.
In a letter published in the Dallas Morning News, Richard George argued that we should “bring back Hollywood filibusters” to the Senate. George suggested that filibusters “should require stamina and involvement, just like that used in the movie Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.”
In Iowa, Jim Riggs wrote into the Des Moines Register:
Our senators need to begin looking out for the welfare of our country instead of petty, party politics that are cutting into the fiber of our democracy.
Do you feel strongly about reforming rules in the Senate? Tell your local newspaper how you feel with our easy-to-use letter to the editor tool.
