Congressman Andy Biggs

I think you're exactly right.

The blue slip and the current cloture rule, they don't require virtually any work on the part of the minority to basically kill the agenda of the majority.

And Donald Trump was given a mandate, in my opinion, by the American people.

He had the biggest victory in a long, long time.

He took all the battleground states and the House has done okay, not great, but okay at getting a lot of his agenda through.

And then it gets to the Senate and it just gets stuck there.

Or else the Senate leadership on the Republican side, they actually capitulate to demands made by the minority because that's the way the cloture and the veto process works.

And

And Vince, that will not get the agenda through.

And if you can't get your agenda through, quite frankly, low propensity voters who don't pay much attention anyway, and even people who regularly get out there say, why should I vote for the majority, the Republicans again, when they can't get the job done?

And we can't get the job done because of arcane Byzantine, anachronistic...

Yeah, it really does.

And it actually, this is the problem with it too, Vince.

It gives the minority the power over the majority.

So our Constitution was designed for obviously a religious and moral people, but it's also designed for the majority to get its will.

And that's why voters just say, well, why bother?

Why bother?

And there's so much that's miss said about this stuff.

For instance, if you eliminate the cloture rule, which takes down to simple majority, shut down a filibuster.

What that does is everybody's you still keep the filibuster.