Filibuster Limitations News Today

A Brookings Institution expert explains why seniority in Congress has clear benefits for individual members and their constituents.

How unusual would it be to create a filibuster carve-out for voting rights?

Leigh Vogel/Getty Images On Sunday, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) — who previously was one of the few Democratic senators who said he was not open to filibuster reform — opened the door to making filibusters less potent. “If you want to make [filibustering] a little bit more painful — make them stand there and talk — I’m willing to look at any way we can,” Manchin told Meet the Press’s Chuck Todd. He later told Fox News’s Chris Wallace that the filibuster “should be painful if yo...