A Quote by Dick Durbin

You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death.

Dick Durbin

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Dick Durbin
American - Politician
Born: November 21, 1944

My view of the filibuster is either you've got to lower vote edge or make people really filibuster if they feel that seriously about a piece of legislation.

Angus King

We've always said a filibuster is not appropriate for judicial nominees. A filibuster is a legislative tool designed to extract compromises. A judicial nominee is a person. You can't take the arm or leg of a nominee.

Wendy Long

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Clare Boothe Luce

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Clare Boothe Luce

The Dream Act and the DISCLOSE Act, to name two, had majorities in both chambers during Obama's first term, but they were filibustered to death. They probably await a similar fate unless the filibuster is reformed.

Ari Melber

Eleanor Roosevelt fights for an anti-lynch law with the NAACP, with Walter White and Mary McLeod Bethune. And she begs FDR to say one word, say one word to prevent a filibuster or to end a filibuster. From '34 to '35 to '36 to '37 to '38, it comes up again and again, and FDR doesn't say one word. And the correspondence between them that we have, I mean, she says, "I cannot believe you're not going to say one word." And she writes to Walter White, "I've asked FDR to say one word. Perhaps he will." But he doesn't. And these become very bitter disagreements.

Blanche Wiesen Cook

The only tool the Democrats have is in the Senate, and it's the filibuster.

Rush Limbaugh

There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster.

Tony Snow

The next time you do a filibuster, keep walking around.

Bernie Sanders

We've seen filibusters of bills and nominations that ultimately passed with 90 or more votes. Why filibuster something that has that kind of support? Just to slow down the process and keep the Senate from working.

Elizabeth Warren

No one ever built the filibuster rule. It just kind of was created.

Evan Bayh

Filibuster has long tradition, but used to harm civil rights.

Barack Obama

So I put that all together and I find it makes it hard to justify a filibuster.

Kent Conrad

The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate.

Hendrik Hertzberg

McCain was so passionate and determined, but he was also practical. He understood what a heavy lift it was to get a 60-vote, filibuster-proof margin on something that lawmakers feared would hurt their ability to campaign to keep their jobs.

Dana Bash

Republicans have used the filibuster to turn the Senate into a de facto 60-vote body.

Steve Kornacki

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