A ‘talking filibuster’ isn’t going to solve the Senate’s problems

President Joe Biden threw his significant political weight this week behind an effort to reform the Senate’s filibuster process, telling ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that “you have to do it what it used to be when I first got to the Senate back in the old days. You had to stand up and command the floor, you had to keep talking.”President Joe Biden threw his significant political weight this week behind an effort to reform the Senate’s filibuster process, telling ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that “you have to do it what it used to be when I first got to the Senate back in the old days. You had to stand up and command the floor, you had to keep talking.”