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In my view, the true 60-vote Senate is not going to prove stable in the long run, and the Senate will eventually either have to find some new set of rules and procedures that empower individuals, minority parties, and majority parties here's my suggestion -- or else it will wind up as a simple majority-party rule institution, like the House.

What's next for Senate reform? Jonathan Bernstein 2011

Senators have strong incentives for retaining as much individual influence as possible, but majority-party senators also have strong incentives for pleasing their party's constituents, and all senators have an interest in a set of workable rules.

Here comes filibuster reform Jonathan Bernstein 2010

Lower levels of turnover in the modern era appear to contribute to an enhanced ability of majority-party leaders to wield influence.

Archive 2008-04-01 2008

Finally, majority-party leaders were able to exercise negative agenda control in lame-duck sessions when their party maintained control of the next Congress, but they often acted to roll their own party members (an occurrence we dub a “strategic roll”) when their party lost control of the next Congress, as a way to minimize policy loss.

Archive 2008-04-01 2008

Yes, I'm sure it's true that majority-party senators hear from constituents who want them to force people to read from phone books and the like, but as Sanders demonstrated, that's not what actually will happen.

No, we don't want a Mr. Smith Senate Jonathan Bernstein 2010

Oh, he'll lose his committee chair, and that might make him want to leave the caucus, but those majority-party perks are a strong temptation.

Dem Jeff Merkley Declares Victory Over GOP Senator Gordon Smith 2009

BNP Secretary General Delower Hossain also mentioned in a news conference that his party will play a good role in parliament if majority-party acts accordingly.

Bangladesh returned to Democracy 2009

Finally, majority-party leaders were able to exercise negative agenda control in lame-duck sessions when their party maintained control of the next Congress, but they often acted to roll their own party members an occurrence we dub a “strategic roll” when their party lost control of the next Congress, as a way to minimize policy loss.

Lame Ducks as a Natural Experiment 2008

Lower levels of turnover in the modern era appear to contribute to an enhanced ability of majority-party leaders to wield influence.

Lame Ducks as a Natural Experiment 2008

Democrats and Republicans each hold five of the committee's 10 seats, making it the only House panel on which Democrats can block majority-party actions.

June 2005 2005