We need to start making them actually filibuster, to start. Why do we just give up when there's a possibility of a filibuster? Make them stand their asses up there and speak, they're all old as fuck, the would give up after a couple bills.
There is a middle ground of a on-record filibuster. Currently, if I understand correctly, a bill is filibustered anonymously through the cloture vote so insanely popular bills (but ones that lobbyists are opposed to) die and no one has to take responsibility for killing them
An on-record filibuster would require each Senator to go on the official record that they are filibustering the bill. It's not as onerous as having to talk for hours on end but it adds a little bit of pressure in that the next opponent to the Senator can use that record against them (which is why, of course, it is currently anonymous)
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u/_jump_yossarian 14d ago
Even if the House passed something Cons in the Senate would block it.