Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 2d "The Senate's Committee on Rules and Administration lacks agenda control. Instead, the calendar is set by Unanimous Consent, or UC, which means in practice by agreement between the majority and minority leaders." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-reconstr...
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"Virtually all the business of the Senate is arranged by unanimous consent. … The introduction of the two-track system in the 1970s to keep Senate business moving during filibusters created an entire parallel system of legislating that circumvents the civics-textbook version of how law is made."