In her New York Times column today, Gail Collins stresses a point about the Senate that can’t be said enough, a pathetic situation:
“There are 100 members of the Senate. But because of the filibuster rule, it takes only 41 to stop any bill from passing.
U.S. population: 307,006,550.
Population for the 20 least-populated states: 31,434,822.
That means that in the Senate, all it takes to stop legislation is one guy plus 40 senators representing 10.2 percent of the country.”
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The joys of federalism.
And you wonder why I keep saying “234 years of mistakes, it’s time to go back to Britain” in my blog?
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