Pétition
Tell the Senate: Abolish the filibuster
I’m sick of watching overwhelmingly popular policies fall victim to one anti-democracy Senate rule: the filibuster.
Our government needs to represent us – and act in the interest of the people who voted them into power. The Senate’s minority can’t continue dictating the outcome of almost all Senate legislative business. We must immediately eliminate the filibuster.
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.