.........If the Majority Leader is going to push rules changes with a simple majority vote, I shall push some ideas of my own.
I pledge to fight back by proposing my own
array of rules changes if Reid launches his first strike. I intend on
offering a new rule to mandate that the budget be balanced each year.
Another idea I have is to offer a new rule
making it virtually impossible for the Senate to consider a bill that
violates the Bill of Rights. To use a recent example, under this new
rule I would be empowered to raise a point of order against legislation
allowing the indefinite detention of American citizens, as such a
provision is in direct violation of the constitutional right to trial by
jury.
If legislation restricing the rights of
Americans to defend themselves with a firearm were to be introduced, I
could raise a point of order forcing a two-thirds majority to approve
that legislation.
These are merely a few ideas of the many I have been drafting up for Senate consideration next January.
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