Staff reports | In bicameral legislatures, state senates often are lauded for being chambers where bad ideas coming from a reactionary or rowdy sister chamber can be improved through a more deliberative process.
In recent years in South Carolina, however, the state Senate also has been criticized as a place where good ideas also go to die due to complex rules that stymied the process and placed lots of power in the hands of individual senators who use rules to kill something easily.
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