Obama Administration Position on Filibuster Reform
Presidential Statement on Senate Rule Change
It’s no secret that the American people have probably never been more frustrated with Washington. And one of the reasons why is that over the past five years, we’ve seen an unprecedented pattern of obstruction in Congress that’s prevented too much of the American people’s business from getting done. All too often, we’ve seen a single senator or a handful of senators choose to abuse arcane procedural tactics to unilaterally block bipartisan compromises, or to prevent well-qualified, patriotic Americans from filling critical positions of public service in our system of government. Now, at a time when millions of American have…
