Ramesh responds to my case for restoring the filibuster to its traditional rules:

Whether we should have a filibuster, and if so whether we should make changes to it, depends on a prior judgment about what it is that we want Congress to do — and, if we think Congress is failing, about how it is failing. In the Corner earlier today, John Puri seconded George Will’s recommendation that we return to a one-track filibuster: While one is happening, the Senate wouldn’t be able to do much else. That’s a reasonable idea. But we should keep in mind why the Senate changed the rules in the 1970s: because it wanted the majority to be able to pass more legislation. Single tracking would mean that the Senate majority would pass fewer bills. And maybe passing fewer........

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