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The Case for the Talking Filibuster
Sure, it has its drawbacks, but forcing politicians to stand on the Senate floor for hours at a time, monologuing, might be the only way to pass desperately needed voting rights legislation.
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Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia has said he’d never vote to end the filibuster, but he might be open to instating a talking filibuster.
As dawn rose over the Capitol on a Wednesday in early March 1960, two men remained on the Senate floor segregationist South Carolina Senator Olin Johnson was reading aloud from the collected works of J. Edgar Hoover while a lightly snoring Senator Prescott Bush, the father and grandfather of future presidents, supposedly stood guard for civil rights forces. As a
Insight: âThe truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.â âHerbert Sebastien Agar (1897-1980)
Unity! Part I: âWhatâs become crystal clear is that Biden has redefined bipartisan. It isnât âhow many Republicans Iâve got.â Itâs about, âHow many Republican voters or mayors and governors can I get to support my stuff?â And Washington is slow to catch up to the Biden definition.â âRahm Emanuel
Unity! Part II: âIf you looked up âbipartisanâ in the dictionary, I think it would say support from Republicans and Democrats. It doesnât say the Republicans have to be in Congress.â âAnita Dunn, a senior Biden adviser
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