Currents Quote by Evan Bayh

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

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

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

Senate Republicans have engaged in a record number of filibusters and other obstructionist tactics.

— Bernie Sanders

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

— Hendrik Hertzberg

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

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 always said a filibuster is not appropriate for judicial nominees. A filibuster is a legislative tool designed to extract compromises. A judicial nominee…

— Wendy Long

Senators should not play politics by threatening filibusters and evaluating Judge Gorsuch based on what his policy preferences are or how he might come…

— Thom Tillis

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

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