{"id":16215,"date":"2010-04-19T14:35:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T20:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=16215"},"modified":"2010-04-19T14:40:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T20:40:59","slug":"d-c-publication-highlights-udall%e2%80%99s-reform-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/04\/d-c-publication-highlights-udall%e2%80%99s-reform-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"D.C. publication highlights Udall\u2019s reform ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15562\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15562 \" title=\"Udall, Tom\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Udall-Tom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"254\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M. (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>U.S. Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/tomudall.senate.gov\/\">Tom Udall<\/a>, D-N.M., is proposing changing the way the Senate does business, and <a href=\"http:\/\/corporate.cqrollcall.com\/wmspage.cfm?parm1=12\">Congressional Quarterly<\/a> is giving his ideas a lot of attention.<\/p>\n<p>In a new feature on its Web site headlined \u201cCan the Senate be fixed?\u201d Congressional Quarterly writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cPick the adjective &#8212; broken, dysfunctional, gridlocked. In the minds of many observers, they all apply to the modern Senate. The perception, particularly after this year\u2019s health care votes, is that this is an institution gone badly off track, where procedural and partisan wrangling has entangled the nation\u2019s business at a time when the country needs an efficient, functioning government more than ever. That\u2019s why a group of younger Democrats is studying past efforts to change the Senate\u2019s rules.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Udall is one of three people \u2013 and the only senator \u2013 featured in video interviews that are part of the CQ \u201cbroken Senate\u201d story. I\u2019ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/02\/video-udall-promotes-plan-to-reform-senate\/\">written before<\/a> on Udall\u2019s proposals to reform the Senate, but there\u2019s much more depth in the CQ feature.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/innovation.cq.com\/media\/broken_senate\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Sen. Tom Udall is proposing changing the way the Senate does business, and Congressional Quarterly is giving his ideas a lot of attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[116],"class_list":["post-16215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}