Filibuster Quotes

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There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster.

You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death.

Voter suppression laws, overzealous filibuster use, you name it - the Republicans use every tactic they can to stop our democracy from actually selecting the person with the most support.

President Barack Obama has it right - there is a lot to change about Washington. The problem is, not much will get changed unless we confront the runaway filibuster in the U.S. Senate.

I will not let the patriot act, the most un-patriotic of acts, go unchallenged.

I mean, if you go back to 1960 on major pieces of legislation, the filibuster was used about eight percent of the time.

If Trump wins, the only thing blocking complete implementation of the programs of Trump, Paul Ryan, the Koch brothers, etc., is the Senate filibuster by the Democrats.

Filibuster has long tradition, but used to harm civil rights.

The next time you do a filibuster, keep walking around.

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

There are two ways of looking at the talking filibuster. My way is as a form of unanimous consent.

So I put that all together and I find it makes it hard to justify a filibuster.

You can go back and rescind an old regulation like Obama era regulations. That was done once in 20 years. We've done 14 of them in law this year alone, because they can't filibuster that.

The only tool the Democrats have is in the Senate, and it's the filibuster.

I would never filibuster any President’s judicial nominee, period. I might vote against them, but I will always see they came to a vote.