Petición
Dígale al Senado: elimine el obstruccionismo
Estoy harto de ver cómo políticas abrumadoramente populares caen víctimas de una regla antidemocrática del Senado: la obstrucción legislativa.
Nuestro gobierno debe representarnos y actuar en beneficio de la gente que lo votó para llevarlo al poder. La minoría del Senado no puede seguir dictando el resultado de casi todos los asuntos legislativos del Senado. Debemos eliminar de inmediato la obstrucción legislativa.
The filibuster wasn’t even routinely used in the Senate until recently. By abusing a technicality that 60 senators need to vote to even begin debate on a bill, a handful of senators can effectively kill a bill that a majority of senators – and voters – support.
That’s outrageous! How can Congress truly represent the American people when a minority of partisan politicians have the power to completely stifle the will of the voters?
But we only need a simple majority vote in the Senate to abolish the filibuster. That’s hardly a radical idea – the Senate’s rules and the filibuster itself have changed more than 100 times. The filibuster doesn’t even appear in the Constitution – and major political figures, including Democrats, Republicans, and Independents, say it’s time to eliminate it.
Add your name to tell the Senate we’re counting on them to do what’s right for our democracy – by abolishing the filibuster.