Submitted ny: Kathy Hawkins
Democratic Think Tank Study Finds Harry Reid and Senate Dems are Responsible for Gridlock
Heather Ginsberg
As if it wasn’t obvious before, we now have a liberal leaning think
tank blaming Senate Democrats for all the trouble the government has
been having lately. Newest analysis from the Brookings Institution points directly at the Democrat-controlled Senate to blame for the congressional gridlock.
Justifying this conclusion the analysis opens with the observation that
the House has passed twice as many bills as the Senate in 2013. Mostly
to blame is the Senate committee process.
"When we look at this category, then, we begin to understand where the
problem lies: even in the traditionally collegial Senate, 87 percent of
bills die in committee," Molly Jackman and Saul Jackman, of Brookings,
and Brian Boessenecker write in Politico. "While the filibuster may grab all the headlines, committees are a far deadlier weapon."
But remember Republicans are the ones that are causing all the problems
in government. But now that Harry Reid got the filibuster rules
changed, it’s no surprise that many are worried about their ability to
get anything passed.
It’s not the Senate committees that are problem now with the new
filibuster rules. McConnell has shown interest in empowering the
committees, once again to try and get rid of the advantage Democrats now
have in the Senate.
Clearly though, when liberal think tanks start to turn on their own party it must be pretty darn bad over there.
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