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demerits of the legislation at hand, then vote. The votes are then counted, and if the senators who support the bill outnumber those who oppose it, well, you get the idea.
But no, not when senators, using an archaic parliamentarian parlor trick, can stop a bill dead in its tracks merely by telling their party's Senate leader or secretary that they wish to place a hold on the bill. That’s when Sen. Kyi - who routinely charts a brave course on the immigration debate, and can often be counted on to reason rather than bloviate - slipped in the hold.
The practice of honoring secret holds has no basis in law and has no support in Senate rules. It’s a good-‘ol-boy creation and another of the seemingly endless perks of the Senate, where the rules always seem to benefit the representatives far more than the pesky public.
Oh, I know what’s coming: the inevitable blathering about the world’s greatest deliberative body and its need for timeless soul-searching and “candor” and how terribly hard legislating can be. Well hear all about collegiality and efficiency and the grand traditions that make the Senate “special.”
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