Filibuster abuse comes at a time of new interest in reforming the rules of the often-gridlocked U.S. Senate. Several lawmakers are expected to press to modernize Senate rules in the first week of the new Congress. Now - when the partisan implication of filibuster reform is unclear - is the ideal time to act. For whichever party wields the gavel, our democracy is ill served by a Senate tangled in obsolete and easily-abused rules of its own making.
We are also delighted to release the 2010 edition of our Citizen's Guide to Redistricting at http://www.brennancenter.org.