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Congress. you know, ruth, we bring this up because the death of senator inoye was a reminder of this. you know, the world war ii veterans for a while sort of defined the senate. they were bipartisan. >> that's right. bob dole and dan inoye, they would do these things there and that generation goes. i bring it up because the vietnam guys, all of a sudden they are disappearing. >> right. and the interesting thing is, there is not another generation -- a big enough generation, a sort of critical mass of iraq, afghanistan -- >> we're probably 20 years away from where you would have that. >> they a...

>> tired of the filibusters that permits things to be filibustered, you know, 60 votes are required even to get something to the floor to be debated. >> they don't even have to -- >> the thing about the filibuster is you don't have to go and actually filibuster. i mean, that's the issue. it's not mr. smith goes to washington where you are reading the phone book, and it's really an endurance challenge. it's the threat of the filibuster, and the other thing is steve made me think of olympia snow. i mean, this is someone who would have been re-elected with 75% of the vote. and decided she didn't ...