Firedoglake: Franken's Rule Change Would Put Burden on 41 Senators Filibustering

Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) has put a new twist on the Senate filibuster reform effort. He's a cosponsor of the Udall/Merkley/Harkin plan to change the Senate rules. But he added a one-page tweak to the rules that would place the burden more on the entity doing the filibustering than the entity trying to break the filibuster. Here's the entire change:

SECTION 1. AMENDMENT TO THE STANDING RULES OF THE SENATE.

The second undesignated paragraph of paragraph 2 of rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate is amended by striking ''And if that question shall be decided in the affirmative by three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn'' and inserting ''And if that question is decided in the affirmative and there are not negative votes by more than two-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn''.

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