![]() Because we’ve had a filibuster for a long time. And this is one of those places where you really need to convince people something has changed. ![]() Obviously, the key reason nothing passes the Senate is the mutation of the filibuster into a 60-vote supermajority threshold for basically everything - not literally everything, but basically everything. So many of our policy debates, we have and we fight them out and we care about them, and nobody ever seems to realize that they’re moot because nothing passes the Senate. Because no matter what it is you care about - a minimum wage, a Green New Deal, gun control, democracy reform - whether or not bills can pass the Senate is the debate upstream of that question. A project of this show is to try to get you and everyone else to care about Senate rules. So whether you’re a new listener of the show or an old listener of the show, something you’re probably catching on to is that a lot of the way I think about legislative politics is about the Senate. ![]() ![]() I’m Ezra Klein, and this is “The Ezra Klein Show.” ![]() Transcript The Senate Is Making a Mockery of Itself A former Senate staffer explains how the institution became a legislative black hole - and how to fix it. ![]()
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