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It seems as though there are Members in this body who want to filibuster just about everything we try to do, whether it is…

— Jim Bunning

Filibusters should require 35 senators to... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory. The number of votes…

— Evan Bayh

We've seen filibusters to block judicial nominations, jobs bills, political transparency, ending Big Oil subsidies - you name it, there's been a filibuster.

— Elizabeth Warren

In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed,…

— Peter Fenn

What's the point of winning the presidency and the Senate and the House if we cannot pass legislation, if we're hopelessly hamstrung by the…

— Ritchie Torres

Bills should go through committee.

— Mitch McConnell

There's a romanticized vision of the filibuster as the best hope for bipartisanship it's given us nothing but gridlock. It has made Washington, D.C.,…

— Ritchie Torres

We've seen filibusters of bills and nominations that ultimately passed with 90 or more votes. Why filibuster something that has that kind of support?…

— Elizabeth Warren

My view of the filibuster is either you've got to lower vote edge or make people really filibuster if they feel that seriously about…

— Angus King

Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of…

— Evan Bayh

If I have to filibuster on the Senate floor, I'll even read the King James Bible until the wall is funded.

— Luther Strange

There are two ways of looking at the talking filibuster. My way is as a form of unanimous consent.

— Jeff Merkley