http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/12/dueling-filibuster-proposals.php?ref=fpnewsfeed
Sens. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Tom Udall (D-NM) promptly said the alternate
proposal put forth by Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Carl Levin (D-MI) is too weak
and does nothing to prevent senators from filibustering quietly and escaping
public accountability for their obstruction — the centerpiece of the
Merkley-Udall “talking filibuster” plan.
The McCain-Levin proposal,
unveiled Friday after bipartisan negotiations, would make it easier for the
majority leader to bypass motions to proceed and guarantee the minority two
amendments on legislation regardless of relevancy, Steven S. Smith, an expert on
Congress at Washington University in St. Louis, told TPM. It would also remove
obstacles on motions to go to conference and approve minor presidential
nominations.
2 Amendments "REGARDLSS TO RELAVANCY" that sounds like license to block no matter how important, isn't that why the progressives are fighting against filibuster? nothing really ever changes with the right.
Udall and Merkley insisted that Democrats have the 51 votes necessary to pass their more robust plan and called on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to take it up.
The pro-reform Fix The Senate Now Coalition also called on Reid to say “thanks, but no thanks” to the McCain-Levin plan.
“Instead of a serious reform effort, today’s offering is little more than a status quo, business as usual, recipe for continued Senate gridlock,” the organization said in a written statement. “[W]e hope the Senate Democratic caucus rejects today’s salvo outright.”
right wing change bears a remarkable resemblance to the good 'ol boyz in the hood i mean house.
