What's Happening in Congress: How the filibuster is affecting Senate business by Brookings Institution published on 2021-06-02T16:26:39Z Molly Reynolds, senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, offers her thoughts on how the filibuster has shaped recent events in the Senate—including failure to establish a bipartisan commission to investigate the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol—and also how the filibuster will play out in upcoming debates on election reform, lobbying rules, and more. Genre News & Politics