Senators have it too easy
Matthew Yglesias thinks that Senators get to wiggle out of responsibility for the disruption they cause through inaction and delay. To place a hold on a nomination, he suggests, a Senator should have to stand on his head in the Senate chamber and formally pronounce words like “I, Senator Richard Mintz of New York, wish to postpone a vote on [name] until tomorrow, February 6, 2010″ — and then do it again tomorrow and the day after that and the day after that, or else the hold expires. He would graciously allow the Senator “an assist from staff if necessary,” at least on the headstand part. Now that’s a government reform I could get behind!
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