That—
it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the Standing Rules of the Senate and debate practices should not be abused for the purpose of debilitating the Senate and indefinitely blocking debate or a fair, up or down vote on legislative matters;
the House of Representatives urges the Senate to adopt a new precedent that would end the abuse of the Standing Rules of the Senate and arduous practices related to debate in order to restore the daily workings of the Senate, in keeping with accountable debate such as the classic standing and talking filibuster;
it is the sense of the House of Representatives that after the Senate sets a new precedent to restore its workings, the Senate should negotiate and adopt, under its existing rules of a supermajority vote to invoke cloture, a parliamentarian procedure to replace the cloture motion to call up legislation and make it pending before the Senate, with a “non debatable motion to proceed to consider” that allows for the minority to offer a reasonable number of germane amendments, subject to debate, once the measure is pending for consideration;
the House of Representatives further encourages the Senate to forbid threats of a filibuster derived from an “anonymous hold”, and in its place reinvigorate the “traditional standing filibuster” or “hold the floor” mechanism of dissent, with a time allocation of up to 100 hours and the ability to truncate debate only by a petition of 60 Senators;
it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the proposed number of germane amendments and debate hours and mechanism to truncate debate described in paragraphs (3) and (4), respectively, could be decreased or increased at the time that the rule change is negotiated and adopted, ensuring the appropriate center between sufficient adversarial debate and the prevention of chronic stalemate is both a Senate majority and minority determination;
the House of Representatives believes that these proposed changes to the Standing Rules of the Senate and debate practices shall—
reestablish deliberation in the world’s most deliberative body, as intended by the United States of America’s founding fathers;
allow the Senate to meet its constitutional responsibilities in a timely fashion and effectively respond to national needs;
enhance our democratic system and the attending processes that clearly, specifically and accurately assign official actions of representatives and parties accordingly so that accountability is clearly delineated; and
encompasses a strong incentive to reach consensus in the Senate and still preserve the minority’s opportunity to have enhanced objection and reasonable leverage against any overreach on the part of the majority or if the minority feels further debate and clarity on a given agenda item is particularly important to the country; and
it is the sense of the House of Representatives that nothing in this resolution—
shall be construed as the House of Representatives advocating a wholesale abolishment of a Senate filibuster mechanism or supermajority cloture requirement; or
shall be construed as the House of Representatives calling for the classic standing and talking Senate filibuster to be abolished; on the contrary, the House believes it should be reinvigorated.