Gridlock Governing: Toxic Amendments and Partisan Calculating May Land Senate Republicans in the Minority Once Again

It’s becoming harder and harder for any majority leader to get bills passed in the Senate. As our new research study found, individual senators are tripping up legislation as a regular course of business. They do this by offering amendments to legislation – lots of them. Twenty years ago, senators offered about 2,650 amendments in a two-year period. […]