Senate bill delay

The NCC blog is complaining that the latest Senate reform bill has been delayed:

One year seems like an awfully long time to pass a bill that is only three clauses long. But when the bill in question (S-4) proposes to limit Senate terms to eight years, it is no wonder the dust collectors in the Upper House have pulled out every trick in the book to delay it.

This is one of those "I don't really care either way" issues, as the only real change is to impose term limits. Term limits without other, more radical changes are pretty much a non-issue: in fact, it'll increase the overall cost of running the Senate. Why? Because with more frequent changes in the composition of the senate, there'll be more ex-Senators drawing public pensions. Other than that, this is not a particularly useful change.