"The President has said many times that the American people are demanding action. They want to see progress, not partisan delay games. That hasn't changed, and the President supports Majority Leader Reid's efforts to reform the filibuster process.
"Over the past few years important pieces of legislation like the DREAM Act, the Paycheck Fairness Act, and the American Jobs Act weren't even allowed to be debated, and judicial nominations and key members of the administration are routinely forced to wait months for an up-or-down vote. The American people deserve a United States Senate that puts them first, instead of partisan delay." -- statement today to the Huffington Post by Dan Pfeiffer, White House Communications Director. It's long past time to do something about this parliamentary anachronism that has been so egregiously abused by the Rethuglicans in the past 4 years.
