The Senate does not need to choose between preserving debate and reaching decisions, and restoring a modified previous question motion would help the chamber do both.

How majority leaders use the amendment tree to close the Senate floor to amendments—and how a simple rule change could reopen the process.

A package of Senate rules reforms would make the chamber more deliberative and productive, beginning with a proposal to limit debate on the motion to proceed so the Senate can actually get to legislation.

A four-part rules reform package would address frustrations in both parties and help the Senate deliberate and legislate more effectively.

Senators who understand how to draft policy changes as terms and conditions on federal spending or revenue and frame them that way can overcome the Byrd Rule’s most subjective tests.

Passing the SAVE America Act in a reconciliation bill will take longer and is more complicated than forcing its opponents to mount a talking filibuster.

Senators don’t need unanimous consent to act—they can use the rules to force votes.

Four rules changes that will help senators debate more, amend more, and vote more.

A detailed guide to how Senate majorities can avoid unlimited amendments in a talking filibuster.

A step-by-step guide to how a determined majority can overcome minority obstruction without abolishing the filibuster.

This post highlights how the House can make it easier for the Senate to pass legislation.

This piece reviews the procedural tools that can shorten, structure, or otherwise discipline extended debate in the Senate.

Senate rules provide alternative ways to outlast or outmaneuver a filibuster.

A practical guide to identifying appropriations provisions that may run afoul of Rule XVI.

This piece explains why moving a minibus through the Senate often depends less on raw majority power than on unanimous consent.

Senate rules and party practices may give Republicans more leverage over earmarks than they are using.

How substantive disagreements can quickly become floor-management problems when senators don’t follow their own party rules.

Senate minorities only gain leverage when they are willing to use the tools available to them.

This piece lays out how existing procedures can be used to move the process forward without nuking the rules.

The article explores how Senate rules shape the timing, leverage, and possible resolution of fiscal brinkmanship.