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Whatever you believe about the shutdown it does illustrate a flaw in congress on how legislation is brought before them. A single person or minority of people should not be able to keep something off the floor. Things should be presented and voted on in congress. If they are all against it then they are all against it, but it should be presented. Any house representative should be able to bring forth a budget or bill and have it voted on. If the majority of the house finds it acceptable they vote on it. This should apply to both parties so that bills or a budget which have enough bipartisan support to pass can pass. Letting the speaker decide which legislation he wants to vote on gives him way too much power. No matter which party it is they can restrict votes on all legislation based on the desires of the people who elect them which are just the members of that congressman's district. The US is litterally being held hostage at this pointy by the minority of people who happen to be the majority in boehner's district, and that is simply unacceptable for any representative to have that sort of power.
This is obviously a flaw that needs to be corrected ASAP to stop this sort of thing from happening again. If the majority of the house were actually continuing to vote down this sort of thing then that would be better, but since it seems the majority is ready to pass a clean budget it should not be held up, and to go further than that how much legislation has been held up by boehner's or any other speaker's personal bias in the past? It is insane if a dem does it, and it is insane if a republican does it. Whatever the result of all of this shutdown becomes we have to make sure one of the effects is to eliminate the rules that prevent a vote by the house and senate based on a single person or minority hissy fit. Yes, that needs to include the filibuster.
This is obviously a flaw that needs to be corrected ASAP to stop this sort of thing from happening again. If the majority of the house were actually continuing to vote down this sort of thing then that would be better, but since it seems the majority is ready to pass a clean budget it should not be held up, and to go further than that how much legislation has been held up by boehner's or any other speaker's personal bias in the past? It is insane if a dem does it, and it is insane if a republican does it. Whatever the result of all of this shutdown becomes we have to make sure one of the effects is to eliminate the rules that prevent a vote by the house and senate based on a single person or minority hissy fit. Yes, that needs to include the filibuster.