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Constitutional guarantee of majority rule in congress. the court system has never before entered into the senates internal role making, and quite frankly, it is unlikely to do so now. but theyre trying. the other track is in the senate. majority leader harry reid keeps threatening to change the rules. he says it will happen at the very beginning of the next congress. the very first item on the agenda. the main idea under consideration, the main way to change the rules comes from oregon democrat ...

The republican leader who is using it all the time because it is your main kind of power you try to stop reform of it. now there are a couple of plans for changing the fill buster to make it less common or more difficult or even to eradicate it all together. first, there is a lawsuit. a real one. it is in the courts and everything for house democrats and a good governance group called common cause are suing the senate. that court case began this weekend in washington. they argue the filibuster i...

A real one. it is in the courts and everything for house democrats and a good governance group called common cause are suing the senate. that court case began this weekend in washington. they argue the filibuster is illegal because it infringes on what they see as a constitutional guarantee of majority rule in congress. the court system has never before entered into the senates internal role making, and quite frankly, it is unlikely to do so now. but theyre trying. the other track is in the sena...

One of the uncertainties a lot of people in the business community are worried about has to do with the fact that theres so much role-making that has yet to occur. hundreds of rules, dozens of studies. is that not a possible reason as to -- because there are so many things that were left vague in this legislation -- >> lets be clear. rule-making doesnt take place based on legislative vagueness. rule-making happens in virtually every piece of legislation that is passed in order to implement legis...