quotes about Filibuster
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You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death.
-- Dick Durbin -
The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate.
-- Hendrik HertzbergSource : "Ups and Downs" by Hendrik Hertzberg, www.newyorker.com. November 14, 2005.
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So I put that all together and I find it makes it hard to justify a filibuster.
-- Kent Conrad -
There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster.
-- Tony Snow -