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Best Of: Fixing the Filibuster

Not Another Politics Podcast

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The Senate Needs a Super Majority, Right?

The idea that this was younow, all the wheels are going to come off, whoring start careening and all kinds of policy volatility, strikes me as a gross exaggeration. This is about ucing majoritarianism into this one place in the legislative process that doesn't have it right now. I think there might be a lot of americans who would like to go further and make it even harder for the senate to pass things. So they might say, i like the fact that you need not just 50 % of the senators, but you need three fifths of the senators. And if it's vetoed, then you have toget super majorities in both chambers in order to override and you

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