Junior Democrats in Senate seek to change the way chamber does business.

[elleng]

Senate Democrats are expected to elect the same party veterans as their leaders when they return to work this week, but a new class of junior lawmakers is exerting its influence by challenging the chamber's sacred traditions and the partisan, top-down governing style that has marked the past two years.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/14/AR2010111404068.html?hpid=topnews

[Mojorabbit]

1. Now they are looking to change the 60 vote rule. nt

[Ozymanithrax]

3. With the new Congress, the Senate rules can be changed...

with only a majority vote. Once the rules are apporved it requries a 2/3rds majority to change Senate rules.

[OHdem10]

2. They always change it when Republicans are gaining power.