idk about merge the senate into the house. I like the idea that there is one chamber where each state has the same number of votes and one that goes by population. but hard agree on removing the house rep cap, as-is every branch of the fed is weighted toward smaller, more rural states (senate, house with rep cap, potus via electoral college, scotus because senate and potus pick scotus)
If you address gerrymandering, the Senate/House divide is less important (but still important).
Keep the Senate. Make filibusters back into what they were intended as, unlimited debate. You have to have someone in the chamber talking the entire time. The filibuster was intended to allow everyone to talk. It was not intended to hold up bills forever.
Make filibusters back into what they were intended as, unlimited debate.
hard, throbbing agree there. this thing where one congressmonster sends an email that says “I’m gonna filibuster this” and then everyone gets the rest of the day off for cocktails and footrubs is a gross perversion of what it was intended for.
idk about merge the senate into the house. I like the idea that there is one chamber where each state has the same number of votes and one that goes by population. but hard agree on removing the house rep cap, as-is every branch of the fed is weighted toward smaller, more rural states (senate, house with rep cap, potus via electoral college, scotus because senate and potus pick scotus)
If you address gerrymandering, the Senate/House divide is less important (but still important).
Keep the Senate. Make filibusters back into what they were intended as, unlimited debate. You have to have someone in the chamber talking the entire time. The filibuster was intended to allow everyone to talk. It was not intended to hold up bills forever.
hard, throbbing agree there. this thing where one congressmonster sends an email that says “I’m gonna filibuster this” and then everyone gets the rest of the day off for cocktails and footrubs is a gross perversion of what it was intended for.