Two years ago, Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., published a book about restoring the so-called talking filibuster and repairing what he describes as a “broken” system in the Senate. Now he’s forming an unlikely duo with Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., to push a sweeping proposal to overhaul the chamber’s rules.
“America today is larger, busier and more complex than the America our Founding Fathers designed the Senate and its rules to govern,” the pair wrote in a seven-page document they released Thursday.
