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Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.


Barbara Boxer


#another #another day #cannot #day #done

I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President.


Arlen Specter


#around #arrange #availability #i #i am

Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of a filibuster is enough to stop a vote; senators are rarely asked to pull all-nighters like Jimmy Stewart in 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.'


Evan Bayh


#because #current #determined #enough #filibuster

Filibusters should require 35 senators to... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory. The number of votes needed to overcome a filibuster should be reduced to 55 from 60.


Evan Bayh


#continually #debate #filibuster #issue #just

Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it. You didn't have a real partisan issue on those times that it was used.


Kent Conrad


#bush tax cuts #cuts #democratic #democrats #half

Rome had Senators too, that's why it declined.


Frank Dane


#had #rome #senators #too #why

There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.


Will Rogers


#just #just one #one day #open #ought

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.


Will Rogers


#drunks #our #protects #senators