Allowing a “reasonable number of relevant amendments” from the minority party has not always been considered a concession in the Senate. It was once referred to as “regular order.” Despite Reid’s claims that he has been “very generous with amendments,” the number of amendment votes per year (not counting non-binding budget amendments, which by law cannot be limited) has declined from
218 in 2007, when Reid became majority leader, to
67 in 2013. Since July of last year, Republicans have been allowed a grand total of f
our amendments.
Republicans complain that the media’s reporting on the “unprecedented obstructionism” of a “do-nothing Congress”
They note that House Republicans passed more than 200 bills in 2013, many of which Reid has refused to hold votes on in the Senate. House-passed legislation is readily dismissed as “dead on arrival” in the upper chamber, while the storyline surrounding Senate measures, such as the immigration bill, tends to focus on House speaker John Boehner “facing pressure” to hold a vote in the House. In reality, of the 72 bills President Obama signed into law last year, only 16 originated in the Senate.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/368369/harry-reids-obstructionism-andrew-stiles
In my opinion, Obama is abusing his executive powers to force his far left agenda on the people, he knows that many of his ideas would never pass the scrutiny of the congress they were given an up and down vote. Harry Reid provides the political protection by blocking most all amendments and bills the House passes.
There are always two sides of the story, it's horse shit that the main stream media refuses to report it..