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Proud Liberal Dem

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4. The filibustering would go away (or severely diminish)
Thu May 1, 2014, 05:33 PM
May 2014

if they had to get up on the floor and talk in order to maintain a filibuster. I'm o.k. with a filibuster provided that it isn't allowed to hold things up indefinitely. I sort of like proposals that make it so that it becomes harder and harder to sustain over a period of time- so that people have to do a little work to sustain one. This would allow the minority to slow down the process and potentially rally people to their side but would also (eventually) allow for a vote.

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