How to end the filibuster follies

Published February 8, 2017 9:38pm ET



The Senate’s famous filibuster, now on the brink of elimination, should be both revived and limited by listening to Democrats on how to reform it.

Not today’s Democrats, of course. The best filibuster reform proposal is a variant of the one proposed in 1995 by moderate Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and liberal firebrand Tom Harkin of Iowa.

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