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Story summary
- Senators Steve Daines (R-Mont.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) propose Senate rule reforms to speed legislation.
- The plan would eliminate cloture votes on routine business such as nominations and amendments.
- It would remove the intervening-day requirement and cut post-cloture waiting from up to 30 hours to 12.
- A fast-track would let bipartisan committee-passed bills reach the floor after six-hour debate with a simple-majority vote.
- The reforms need 16 senators’ signatures, at least one per party, and have been pitched to Leaders Thune and Schumer.