rule, we re going to have to change it wroosh we re looking at ways to change what has been an abuse. let s bring in washington post staff reporter, news week columnist, and msnbc contributor ezra cline. the conventional wisdom is it takes more than 60 votes to change a rule in the senate. it takes two-thirds to change a rule in the senate. david wallman wrote a thorough piece in the daily post basically saying that there is a way to do this with just a majority vote. what s your reading of the situation? he is right. it s been done before. what happens here, as you say, normally it would take 67 votes to overturn a rule, but when a new congress comes in, so after an election, we re in the 111th right now. after the election, we ll number the 112th congress. when a new congress comes in, it has to readopt rules. there are no rules. it tends to do that, and it does it by a majority vote because if the rules don t exist yet, then there s no rule 22, which creates the filibuster. so
of the 60-vote filibuster rule, we re going to have to change it. we re looking at ways to change what has been an abuse. let s bring in washington post staff reporter, newsweek columnist and msnbc contributor, ezra kline. the conventional wisdom is it takes more than 60 votes to change a rule in the senate. it takes two-thirds to change a rule in the senate. david wallman wrote a thorough piece in the daily post basically saying that there is a way to do this with just a majority vote. what s your reading of the situation? he is right. it s been done before. what happens here, as you say, normally it would take 67 votes to overturn a rule, but when a new congress comes in, so after an election, we re in the 111th right now. after the election, we ll number the 112th congress. when a new congress comes in, it has to readopt rules. there are no rules. it tends to do that, and it does it by a majority vote because if the rules don t exist yet, then there s no rule 22, which creates
it. we re looking at ways to change what has been an abuse. let s bring in washington post staff reporter, newsweek columnist and msnbc contributor, ezra klein. the conventional wisdom is it takes more than 60 votes to change a rule in the senate. it takes two-thirds to change a rule in the senate. david wallman wrote a thorough piece in the daily post basically saying that there is a way to do this with just a majority vote. what s your reading of the situation? he is right. it s been done before. what happens here, as you say, normally it would take 67 votes to overturn a rule, but when a new congress comes in, so after an election, we re in the 111th right now. after the election, we ll number the 112th congress. when a new congress comes in, it has to readopt rules. there are no rules. it tends to do that, and it does it by a majority vote because if the rules don t exist yet, then there s no rule 22, which creates the filibuster. so that is what tom udall and others have beg