{"id":2977,"date":"2013-01-16T13:55:42","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T18:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2977"},"modified":"2013-01-16T13:55:42","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T18:55:42","slug":"so-whats-up-with-filibuster-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/01\/so-whats-up-with-filibuster-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"So What\u2019s Up with Filibuster Reform?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/11\/house-gop-committee-chairs-will-all-be-white-men-in-next-congress\/united_states_capitol_-_west_front\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2861\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2861\" alt=\"United_States_Capitol_-_west_front\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/United_States_Capitol_-_west_front.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/United_States_Capitol_-_west_front.jpg 800w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/United_States_Capitol_-_west_front-300x155.jpg 300w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/United_States_Capitol_-_west_front-150x77.jpg 150w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/United_States_Capitol_-_west_front-400x207.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a core of very strong advocates for changing the filibuster, centered around Sen. Jeff Merkley (D) of Oregon. There are various details. But the gist of his plan is the so-called \u2018talking filibuster\u2019. The minority can still hold things up but you really have to talk on the floor to do it. So it\u2019s visible and conspicuous. Now though Harry Reid is expressing support for a more limited set of changes that proponents like Sen. Merkley, Udall, Warren and others say doesn\u2019t go far enough.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/2013\/01\/so_whats_up_with_filibuster_reform.php\" target=\"_blank\">So What\u2019s Up with Filibuster Reform? | TPM Editors Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 There\u2019s a core of very strong advocates for changing the filibuster, centered around Sen. Jeff Merkley (D) of Oregon. There are various details. But the gist of his plan is the so-called \u2018talking filibuster\u2019. The minority can still hold things up but you really have to talk on the floor to do it. So&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,22],"tags":[789,919,196],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2978,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions\/2978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}