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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. LEIGH VOGEL/Getty Images 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

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