Full Committee Hearing
Examining the Filibuster: Legislative Proposals to Change Senate Procedures
Agenda
The Committee will receive testimony on S. Res. 416, by Senator Harkin, amending the Standing Rules of the Senate to provide for cloture to be invoked with less than a three-fifths majority after additional debate; and S. Res. 619, by Senator Tom Udall, expressing the sense of the Senate that the Senate of each new Congress is not bound by the Rules of previous Senates.