Published Oct 8, 2026, 10:10 AM ET · Updated a month ago · 2 sources

Bipartisan Senate duo proposes filibuster rules reform to fix gridlock

The Hill
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Sens. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) have teamed up in calling for several major reforms to the Senate rules that they say are needed restore bipartisanship and bring the slow-moving institution into the modern age. “Both our parties have been hamstrung by the Senate’s tangled rules,” they wrote in a joint op-ed for…