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I want to help protect that. there's two filibuster votes, cloture votes for every single bill that comes up. one at the beginning to get on it and the another one at the end to get off of it. get rid one of the one at the beginning. keep debating it until they get it resolved. the other issue is about time. right now the senate democrats -- senate democrats are blocking all the nominations coming up not because they can lose the vote, they can't. every one of these nominations is now 51. but they can drag them out to 30 hours of debate because we have 30 hours allotted if the minority chooses...

Words, harry reid promised not to overrule the filibuster votes with democratic support, presumably because that would not have been gentlemanly, and this was a gentlemen's agreement. but now, republicans have not kept up their end of the bargain. the gentlemen and women of the grand old party have nearly ground the judicial process to a halt, to say nothing of legislative affairs. in fact, president obama has only been able to feel a quarter of the empty court seats since the beginning of his time in office, while 71 empty seats are in the court of appeals seat. and now, harry reid signals he...

But these days, congressional inaction is at an historic high, why? the filibuster. who is using it? republicans, last year, 60 votes were required to stop the threat of a filibuster 115 times, a near historic high. it was so fever-pitched, that last year, senate majority reid and mitch mcconnell tried to stop it with the simple goal, stop the legislative logjam and start to compromise by passing bills. part of their gentlemen's agreement meant that harry reid promised not to resort to his controversial threats known as the nuclear option to change the rules via 51 votes, in other words, harry...

>> i see nothing here but a filibuster threat against director cordury as an attempt to weaken the consumer agency. >> the filibuster is crippling major agencies and threatening the nation's judicial system. there are 85 vacancies on the nation's appellate courts right now and the president has nominated 30 judges who are waiting for the republicans to get their act together. the filibuster is designed to empower the minority but republicans have turned it into really a devastating political weapon to stop everything. democrats forced 18 filibuster votes on nominees during the entire eight yea...

That filibuster would hurt the agency. >> i see nothing here but a filibuster threat against director cordury as an attempt to weaken the consumer agency. >> the filibuster is crippling major agencies and threatening the nation's judicial system. there are 85 vacancies on the nati nation's appellate courts right now and the president has nominated 30 judges who are waiting for the republicans to get their act together. the filibuster is designed to empower the minority but republicans have turned it into really a devastating political weapon to stop everything. democrats forced 18 filibuster v...