I don't think the loss of collegiality per se is as huge a problem as Packer paints it to be, but I do think that a lot of the Senate's rules of procedure were drawn up in a time when legislation was less adversarial, and it would be good if those same rules could be revised to reflect the new reality. I don't think that it would change the quality of legislation produced--if anything, it might make the Senate more like parliamentary systems, which are a little more winner take all, and which tend to produce more tendentious legislation. We'll see, I guess.
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