First, fix the filibuster

>>> the system is rigged. look around. oil companies guzzle down billions in profits. billionaires pay lower tax rates than their secretaries. and wall street ceos, the same ones who wrecked our economy and destroyed millions of jobs still strut around congress demanding favors and acting like we should thank them. does anyone here have a problem with that? i do too. i do too. if that's how you got elected and everybody in the country knows that's who you are and that's how you got elected, then you heading up to the senate is a story of national significance. it's significant enough to that "the new york times" is the hometown paper of wall street . when the hometown paper writes about elizabeth warren going to washington , it's possible you're going to get the word "fear" into that headline. she didn't try to disabuse anybody that she intends to be a senator of consequence. she said before she was elected "if the notion on this is we're going to elect somebody to the united states senate so they can be the 100th least senior person in there and be polite and somewhere in their fourth or fifth year do some bipartisan bill that nobody is going to care about, then don't vote for me." in other words i'm planning on getting stuff done, yo, from the get go. now, news, we know what elizabeth warren wants to do first. senator-elect elizabeth warren planted her first flag in terms of what she wants to do with her new job. it's direct and to the point. on the first day that the senate is in session and only on that day, there's something important to happen. the senate decides its rules. right now if any one senator wants to block legislation, they can say that and it's blocked. instant filibustefilibuster. that means you need a super majority to get anything passed through the body. it was not supposed to be like that. the constitution established super majorities for some things, but for rare things like amending the constitution or ratifying treaties. and minorities of senators could hold stuff up, but the filibuster was rarely used. that's not how it is anymore. the republican minority in the senate uses it for everything. they have made a 60-vote threshold the new normal for anything. but the rule that has let that become the new normal, the rule that's let the republican minority do that so easily, fundamentally change the way our democracy works, that rule can be changed. specif specifically changed on that one day. on day one of the new senate by a vote. and elizabeth warren says let's do it. in an article titled "the first week of january", which is when the new senate could do this, they have used it 380 times since the democrats took over the majority in 2006 . we have seen it block jobs bills, political transparency , you name it, there's been a filibuster. we have seen filibusters of bills and nominations that ultimately passed with 90 or more votes. why filibusteriibuster something with that kind of support just to keep the senate from working. on the first day of the new session in january, the senators will have a unique opportunity to change the filibuster rule. i'm joining six new-ly elected senators to pledge to lead this reform on day one. it can be done. they have long advocated for at least that kind of reform. at least the kind of reform where senators have to work for a filibuster. they have to stand up there and talk for as long as they want to hold something up. they can't just do it easy. those senators have been building support for the new session. and almost all of the rest of the newly-elected senators are standing with those reformers and with elizabeth warren on this. they only need a majority. elizabeth warren was a national figure before she ever ran for the senate . which means she's poised to be the most-watched freshman in washington as of january. in her campaign, she made it clear she was going to be a different kind of senator. she was not going to go to washington to build a long career in the senate . she wanted to go and make some changes. so now for the most-watched freshman in the country, we know what day one is going to be about. fixing that filibuster. that's day one. then there's the next six years after that. w