Filibusters Quotes
- Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of a… — Evan Bayh
- Filibusters should require 35 senators to... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory. The number of votes needed… — Evan Bayh
- Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of the Cold War.… — George Packer