New Senate Leadership elections in November, with Mitch McConnell stepping down, present an opportunity to change business as usual in the U.S. Senate.

The Problems We Face:

Your Senator is Blocked from Amending Legislation: Senators are often prevented from making changes to bills, thanks to procedural tactics that stifle debate and transparency.

Backroom Deals Rule the Day: Without open debate and amendments, laws are often decided in secret, leaving your senator—and you—without a real voice.

Political Tensions Are Higher Than Ever: When voters have no real say in shaping laws, it drives people to frustration and political divisions deepen.

The Solutions We Need:

Restore the Right to Amend Legislation: Senators must end the practice of blocking amendments and allow real debate to take place in the Senate.

Bring Power Back to the People: Open debate and transparency ensure that the laws passed by Congress reflect the will of the people, not special interests.

Lower the Political Temperature: By empowering individual senators to represent their constituents more effectively, we can reduce the tensions driving Americans apart.

Did you know your United States senator has been blocked from amending legislation since the 2010s?  If, like most Americans, you’re wondering why Congress is not responsive to the American people this is why.

The senator who is supposed to represent you has virtually no input in the process.

It’s the best kept secret in Washington. Since the early 2010s Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell have used a little-known procedural trick to block all senators from providing any meaningful amendments to legislation. This isn’t partisan. It started under Democrat Harry Reid and was carried on by Republicans.

How is your senator supposed to represent you if he can’t even amend the legislation that governs your life? Isn’t the whole point of this American experiment that the people are supposed to have input on the laws of the country?

Here's how it works:

The Uniparty Negotiates a Big Bill in a Backroom: They keep negotiations for big bills like government funding secret until right before the government funding deadline.

It’s Take-it or Leave-it: Up against these critical deadlines, any senator who dares to demand the opportunity to amend the legislation is accused by the uniparty and the media of trying to “shut down the government.”

This is how we got $35 trillion in debt.

A few simple reforms could fix the Senate and give power back to the people.