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In today’s Senate, it’s the few who are running roughshod over the American people. If the Senate won’t address the problem, the courts must.

After you leave the drive-thru is not the time to change your order! And it’s certainly not the time to create a traffic jam until you get the changes you had the chance to ask for already.

James Fallows, writing for The Atlantic, links to piece by Emmet Bondurant, a member of Common Cause’s National Governing Board and a heckuva law-writing lawyer type. Fallows says, “Looking for a nice law-review-style analysis of what’s wrong with the filibuster? Look no further! The summer issue of the Harvard Journal on Legislation has an article called [...]

As Common Cause President Bob Edgar noted in The Hill’s Congress Blog yesterday, it’s “no wonder [that] Americans are disillusioned with Washington. So far this month the Senate has taken four votes: three of them have been about internal Senate procedures. 14 million people remain out of work, foreclosures are at record highs, yet it’s [...]

The August 15 issue of Newsweek attracted a lot of attention with its provocative cover photo of Republican presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann, proclaiming her “the Queen of Rage.”  But with all due respect to Newsweek’s editors, and to Rep. Bachmann for that matter, an item buried inside the struggling weekly is worth a longer look. [...]