Bipartisan Senate duo proposes filibuster rules reform to fix gridlock

Sens. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) have teamed up in calling for several major reforms to the Senate rules that they say are needed restore bipartisanship and bring the slow-moving institution into the modern age. “Both our parties have been hamstrung by the Senate’s tangled rules,” they wrote in a joint op-ed for…