Bills Quote by Elizabeth Warren

In theory, the filibuster helps whichever party is in the minority in the Senate. In practice, it is the Republicans who have disproportionately used…

— Mehdi Hasan

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

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

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

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

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 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

The structure of the Senate concentrates power in a small subset of states that are much whiter, much more rural, much more conservative than…

— Ritchie Torres

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

The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate.

— Hendrik Hertzberg

As every newspaper reader, liberal activist, or parliamentary junkie knows, the overarching barrier to most of Obama's agenda is the abuse of the filibuster…

— Ari Melber

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