Nobody in the U.S. Senate has been more a more outspoken advocate for filibuster reform than Jeff Merkley. The Oregon Democrat was first elected senator on the same night that Barack Obama was first elected president, and quickly witnessed the chamber “go from being a cooling saucer to being a deep-freeze,” as he puts it, with unprecedented gridlock.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=207254