Resources
PRESS RELEASES
Press Release: A Bipartisan Call for Senate Rules Reform (December 21, 2010)
Press Release: Senate Democratic Caucus Unites Behind Rules Reform (December 22, 2010)
Press Release: Momentum Behind Senate Rules Reform Grows (January 5, 2011)
Press Call: Senate Leaders Behind Rules Reform Effort Highlight Need for Reform (January 18, 2011)
FACT SHEETS AND REPORTS
Common Cause: The Filibuster - An Historical Accident
Common Cause: The Senate Must Amend its Filibuster Rules when New Congress Convenes in January
Council on Foreign Relations: Congress and National Security
Key Findings of the Council on Foreign Relations Report: A Broken Senate Hurts Our National Security
Filibusters and Holds: A Fact Sheet
Brennan Center for Justice: Filibuster Abuse
Background for OpEds, Letters to the Editor, and Bloggers
The Real State of Senate Rules Reform – Answering Concerns and Addressing Misconceptions
Why Rules Reform is Needed to Address the Judiciary Crisis
Oregonian, Talking about the filibuster, November 24, 2010
Star-Tribune, A welcome push for Senate reforms, November 25, 2010
Des Moines Register, End gridlock on judge appointments, November 26, 2010
Register-Guard, Merkley’s on the mark, November 26, 2010
Nashua Telegraph, Rules change needed on Senate filibusters, December 6, 2010
MetroWest Daily News, Fixing the filibuster, December 13, 2010
Los Angeles Times, A nuclear Senate, December 28, 2010
Lincoln Journal-Star: Filibuster Reform is Needed, December 29, 2010
Chico News and Review: End Anti-Democratic Rules, December 30, 2010
New York Times: Reform and the Filibuster, January 2, 2011
Tuscaloosa News (AL): Filibustering rules get new interpretation, January 3, 2011
Wakefield Observer (MA): Cool it with the filibusters in new Congress, January 3, 2011
Anniston Star (AL): Busting the rules: There’s needed reform in Senate, January 4, 2011
Detroit Free Press: Senate's Job No. 1: Reform filibuster rule, January 5, 2011
San Jose Mercury News: Senate should change filibuster rules, January 5, 2011
San Francisco Chronicle: Rules reform needed to fix U.S. Senate, January 5, 2011
Santa Rosa Press Democrat: Senate fix, January 5, 2011
Scranton Times Tribune: Fix filibuster, outlaw 'holds', January 5, 2011
Aurora Sentinel (CO): Senate needs filibuster rule changes, January 5, 2011
The Ledger (FL): Filibuster: Get Along in Senate, January 5, 2011
Star Ledger (NJ): Majority rules: End the filibuster, January 5, 2011
Register Guard: Fixing the filibuster; Senate should pass Merkley’s reform proposal, January 5, 2011
Portland Press Herald: Our View: Senators should back filibuster reform, January 5, 2011
Denham Transcript (MA): Fixing the Filibuster, January 6, 2011
Winfield Daily Courier (KS): Filibuster Reform Has Much Merit, January 6, 2011
Easton Journal (MA): Fixing the Filibuster, January 6, 2011
Times Call (CO): Senate Reform Would Keep 'Pirates' at Bay, January 7, 2011
Courier Post (NJ): Alter Filibuster Rules in Senate, January 10, 2011
Des Moines Register: Filibuster Should No Longer Rule Senate, January 14, 2011
New York Times: Beyond the Happy Visuals, January 19, 2011
Minutemen News Center (CT): Vote for Proposed Change to Senate Rules, January 19, 2011
Register Guard (OR): Reforming the Filibuster; The Senate Should Pass a Proposal to Change Its Rules, January 20, 2011
St. Petersburg Times (FL): Senate Should Pare Back the Filibuster, January 20, 2011
Statesman Journal: Senate Filibusters Clog All Three Branches, January 25, 2011
News Tribune (WA): Senate's 'Filibuster of One' Deserves a Fast Burial, January 26, 2011
New York Times: Make Them Work for It, January 26, 2011
OP-EDS
Tom Harkin, Overuse of Filibuster Threatens US Democracy, November 20, 2010
John Diaz, For a More Sensible Senate, December 19, 2010
Chuck Hagel and Gary Hart, Restoring Democracy to the US Senate, December 21, 2010
Michael Waldman, Washington Dysfunction's Cure Is in Sight, December 27, 2010
Katrina vanden Huevel, Filibuster Reform at Last?, December 28, 2010
Joyce Appleby, The Senate Filibuster: Time for a Change, January 2, 2011
Walter Mondale, Resolved: Fix the Filibuster, January 2, 2011
Julian E. Zelizer, Senate Should Let Majority Rule, January 3, 2011
Frank R. Lautenberg, Say Anything, but You Must Speak, January 5, 2011
Bob Edgar, It is Time to End the Filibuster, January 6, 2011
Sheldon Whitehouse, A Plan to Mend Filibuster, Not End It, January 7, 2011
Wade Henderson, We Must Fix the Filibuster, January 7, 2011
NEWS
Roberts Seeks More Judicial Confirmations, New York Times, December 31, 2010
Academic Perspective on Senate Rules Reform (December 2, 2010)
California Academics Write in Support of Senate Rules Reform (December 22, 2010)
Organizational Letter to the Senate (January 3, 2011)
Reform Rabbis (January 4, 2011)
PROPOSALS
VIDEOS
Senator Tom Udall: How to Reform the Senate
Senator Tom Harkin on the impact of archaic Senate rules on unemployment benefits
Senator Jeff Merkley explains how Senate rules reform will be addressed starting on January 5, 2010
Rachel Maddow Show: Why the Senate is Broken (December 14, 2010)
