"World's greatest Deliberative Body" needs an overhaul

That's what the US Senate likes to call itself.  But it indulges in procedures that allow members to conceal their votes from their constituents.  It plays the "let's vote on whether to have a vote" game which is a way to kill a bill without actually being seen to vote against it.  It  gives the leadership a private veto of bills it doesn't like.  When the leadership doesn't want a bill to pass, it just refuses to bring the bill to the floor.  It allows individual members a blackball on appointments.  If a member doesn't like a candidate for a judgeship or other federal office, he can file a "hold", a secret note saying don't bring this guy up for a vote.   "Holds" are secret, nobody outside the Senate knows they exist, or who filed them. 
   The Senate ought to give up this "vote to have a vote" malarkey.  All bills should come to the floor, for one vote, pass or fail, each session.   In New Hampshire, with a 400 + person legislature, every member's bills are always brought up for a vote.  No reason the 100 person US Senate cannot do as well.