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- Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere… — Evan Bayh
- Filibusters should require 35 senators to... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory. The number… — Evan Bayh
- In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture… — Peter Fenn
- So I put that all together and I find it makes it hard to justify a filibuster. — Kent Conrad
- President Barack Obama has it right - there is a lot to change about Washington. The problem is, not much will get… — Peter Fenn
- The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate. — Hendrik Hertzberg
- There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster. — Tony Snow
- I mean, if you go back to 1960 on major pieces of legislation, the filibuster was used about eight percent of the… — Tom Udall
- It used to be in the Senate that if you were filibustering, you stood up. There was a physical dimension to it,… — Tom Udall
- You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death. — Dick Durbin
- 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
- Voter suppression laws, overzealous filibuster use, you name it - the Republicans use every tactic they can to stop our democracy from… — Jennifer Granholm