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I want a return to the old-style filibuster ... (5.00 / 3) (#2)
by Meteor Blades on Sat Nov 17, 2007 at 01:49:21 PM EST
...instead of this "gentlemen's agreement" approach we have now. I want to see non-stop all-night readings out of the Bible or The Federalist Papers (or from the writing of the anti-Federalists), auxiliary bladders strapped to the speakers' legs and C-Span covering the whole thing.

Of course, first, as you so rightly say, you have to be willing to pull the trigger on a filibuster. There was a time when nobody would have thought that it took courage to do so, just stubbornness.

As I understand it, it actually used to (none / 0) (#3)
by andgarden on Sat Nov 17, 2007 at 02:06:32 PM EST
be even easier to filibuster. Before the 1960s, Cloture required 67 votes. The only time a "real filibuster" has ever been required is when debate has been limited in some way (ordering of the previous question before 1919, and cloture thereafter).

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