Senate Rules Reform Resolution
On January 5, 2011, the first day of the 112th Congress, U.S. Senators Tom Udall (NM), Tom Harkin (IA), and Jeff Merkley (OR) introduced a Senate rules reform package featuring five provisions:
- Eliminating the Filibuster on Motions to Proceed
- Eliminating Secret Holds
- Guaranteeing Consideration of Amendments from both Parties
- Requiring Continuing Debate to Maintain a Filibuster (Talking Filibuster)
- Expediting Nominations by Limiting Post-cloture Debate to Two Hours
Sponsors and co-sponsors of S.RES.10
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| State | Senator | State | Senator |
| AK | Begich, Mark | MT | Tester, Jon |
| CA | Boxer, Barbara | NC | Hagan, Kay |
| CO | Udall, Mark | NH | Shaheen, Jeanne |
| CO | Bennet, Michael | NJ | Lautenberg, Frank R. |
| CT | Blumenthal, Richard | NY | Gillibrand, Kirsten E. |
| DE | Coons, Christopher A. | NM | Udall, Tom |
| IA | Harkin, Tom | OH | Brown, Sherrod |
| IL | Durbin, Richard | OR | Merkley, Jeff |
| MD | Cardin, Benjamin L. | PA | Casey, Jr., Robert P. |
| MD | Mikulski, Barbara A. | RI | Whitehouse, Sheldon |
| MI | Stabenow, Debbie | VA | Warner, Mark R. |
| MN | Franken, Al | WV | Manchin III, Joe |
| MN | Klobuchar, Amy | WV | Rockefeller IV, John D. |
