Republicans have used the filibuster to turn the Senate into a de facto 60-vote body. — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
So I put that all together and I find it makes it hard to justify a filibuster. — Kent Conrad Copy Share Image
I will not let the patriot act, the most un-patriotic of acts, go unchallenged. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
You know, the Democratic Party is the party that believes in governing, and we are hamstrung by the filibuster. — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
I would never filibuster any President’s judicial nominee, period. I might vote against them, but I will always see they came to… — Saxby Chambliss Copy Share Image
You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death. — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
President Barack Obama has it right - there is a lot to change about Washington. The problem is, not much will get… — Peter Fenn Copy Share Image
We have promised to do better, and no Republican concern should ever be enough to filibuster our own bill. — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it managed to survive. — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
Voter suppression laws, overzealous filibuster use, you name it - the Republicans use every tactic they can to stop our democracy from… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
My way of viewing the talking filibuster was as a way of doing unanimous consent with your feet. You object by going… — Jeff Merkley Copy Share Image
In theory, the filibuster helps whichever party is in the minority in the Senate. In practice, it is the Republicans who have… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
Filibusters should require 35 senators to... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory. The number… — Evan Bayh Copy Share Image
It seems as though there are Members in this body who want to filibuster just about everything we try to do, whether… — Jim Bunning Copy Share Image
It used to be in the Senate that if you were filibustering, you stood up. There was a physical dimension to it,… — Tom Udall Copy Share Image
Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere… — Evan Bayh Copy Share Image
Healthy debate has been replaced by automatic sensors that eliminate the need for actual talking during a filibuster - a la 'Mr.… — Douglas Wilder Copy Share Image
I think what Americans need and what Mainers need more than anything is government that functions and I think that the filibuster… — Sara Gideon Copy Share Image
If the choice is between universal health care or fixing our broken immigration system or upholding a 60-vote filibuster rule that is… — Julian Castro Copy Share Image
“There is another, grimmer history to the filibuster, though, one that carries special relevance for me. For almost a century, the filibuster… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Context is everything. Dress me up and see. I'm a carnival barker, an auctioneer, a downtown performance artist, a speaker in tongues,… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Eleanor Roosevelt fights for an anti-lynch law with the NAACP, with Walter White and Mary McLeod Bethune. And she begs FDR to… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
In trying to explain our political paralysis, analysts cite President Obama's tactical missteps, the obstinacy of congressional Republicans, rising partisanship in Washington,… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
The only tool the Democrats have is in the Senate, and it's the filibuster. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
What's the point of winning the presidency and the Senate and the House if we cannot pass legislation, if we're hopelessly hamstrung… — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture… — Peter Fenn Copy Share Image
The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate. — Hendrik Hertzberg Copy Share Image
I mean, if you go back to 1960 on major pieces of legislation, the filibuster was used about eight percent of the time. — Tom Udall Copy Share Image
There's a romanticized vision of the filibuster as the best hope for bipartisanship it's given us nothing but gridlock. It has made… — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
There are two ways of looking at the talking filibuster. My way is as a form of unanimous consent. — Jeff Merkley Copy Share Image
President Obama had two Supreme Court nominees in his first term. There was no filibuster against them. — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
You can go back and rescind an old regulation like Obama era regulations. That was done once in 20 years. We've done… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
With all the surgical skill and the vital rays lavished on him he should talk like alike a congressman at a filibuster. — Kenneth Langtry Copy Share Image
