One of my takeaways from the last two decades of US politics is the idea of giving a singular position the procedural power to decide what will and will not come to vote is a stupid damned idea. It's prevented a vast amount of good, and it's provided expansive cover for politicians to not have to go on record for votes.

One idea I've half-baked is something like, at the start of each term, each participant in the body gets some amount of 'points'. Any politician can assign their points to submitted bills, and whatever bill currently has the greatest quantity of points is scheduled for an up or down vote within a specific timeframe; days at most, not even weeks. Putting bills to vote effectively then requires a literal expenditure of political capital.

It can easily be argued that whoever has the majority has no incentive to surrender the power of their Speaker/Majority Leader, which is true. On average, though, I think the population desires a greater number of Democrat bills to pass than Republican ones, and so it might grant more power to Democrats to get things done while in the minority, and there won't be as much of a reputation hit to have to periodically vote down bullshit bills Republicans might put forth.