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olaf resurrection misty *** history today in honor of the republicans
filibustering but rel
about talk about the filibuster limit its history
and uh... my theory on why it doesn't go
now for a filibuster in american history was beating there is
and there is also a buster was like you see in itself
uh... mr smith goes washington great frank capra movie starring jimmy stewart
where senators our group listeners get up and they start talking talking
talking
and uh... goes on as they can
uh... in forty one is the perfect signifi use of the filibuster frac
when uh... and replace forced to withdraw his attempt to return to the
second that the united states
uh... based on a a filibuster threat from one king
a filibuster threats used to be effective
uh... because it shut down the calendar and because the senate would only
consider one piece of legislation at any time if you filibuster the bill
any other piece of legislation couldn't get through and could even get
considered
it sends all senators have bills they want passed
but it was a majority will actually get the past
this uh... the lying in the actually take in the senate
is a real serious threat
now the board filibusters comes from a spanish word for lucero
which is a uh... spanish version and uh... the word friedlander
now this is an old we're going back at least for the fifteen hundreds
uh... uh... referring to
into military action
without permission from the government
in eighteen forty three eighteen fifties america this became a big deal
because uh... americans begin to adventure down
to uh... central america in the caribbean trying to create kingdoms for
themselves
anymore you walker
well at takeover underground for about a year before returning to their
and if you're planning to take over congress
will be killed for his affairs there's also an argentinean missus lopez who
tries to free cuba from spain
in as possible or america trying to get support for this
and so on
members of the senate will compare
a senator hijacking the senate
to one of these uh... adventures going out and trying to conquer
uh... government uh...
dan and uh... central america and america
and i think that the local issues will be rear
now in the nineteen thirties acl on former governor of louisiana and and and
senator
uh... trying to get attention for itself
begin filibustering things uh... fairly frequently
in the nineteen thirties uh... just to get attention is to get is that in the
news reels in his name in the paper
usually good if you read shakespeare
and told stories reason anti-reform stuff
uh... in nineteen forty six
uh... southern democrats and dixiecrats as they were called will do all week
long filibuster of an attempt to create an equal opportunity employment uh...
type commission
uh... with four they'll actually kill that because they certainly don't want
uh... people one writer something forms
in nineteen fifty seven strom thurman who was already fifty-five years old
will have a legendary twenty-four hour eighteen min filibuster of the civil
rights bill trying to drive federal protection
to minority voters
black voters
uh... in the south and and darman will definitely try to kill this bill
that if they are always able resistant madrid at the time
well outmaneuver him and get the bill through
exile but also there's a good point
why filibuster why stand up and talk for hours and hours hours
about something that is apparently popular that can pass the senate
that they'd understand is what the rest of the country probably supported this
bill
the self that as a strom thurman was from south carolina all he had to do was
go south carolina voters
and so he was able to take a stand against submitted popular otherwise
but was deeply unpopular war he was from of women voters he had to get it
uh... we're located and so it made sense for and filibuster the bill
today of course because uh... the republican party
uh... his soul opposition to prop up on a
universally popular the buffet rule
it makes sense for them the filibusters well because their voters the people who
might actually shorten vote for republican hale bomb is so much
uh... it doesn't really matter what the issue is there seems hero simply for
standing up to
and that's what i think the dynamic filibuster
of the nineteen sixty four
uh... dixiecrats again local filibuster the civil rights act of nineteen sixty
four the most important civil rights act american history
and uh... group of of some sort of a proper seventy-five hours for it
and only filibusters shut down by only the second cloture vote
which is a vote in the day
uh... he's required two-thirds of the senate
at the airport sixty votes
and pass
on the senate but because it's not too concerned will end the filibuster this
old nineteen sixty four
and i think senator is the senate will actually change the rules which will
make it much easier and and really much more tracked the filibuster
uh... senate majority leader mike mansfield
will create more detract
uh... system for the senate
he used to be that what was the bills they consider to be that the other thing
or the business to be considered it a little still
i would love to track system said they could considers many bills at the time
is that it is they want to
insult you filibuster michael doesn't stop the this other girl from getting
through
it's over moves a lot of pressure
are filibustering senators disease killing all these other people's
legislation
and so that's where the one of the reasons why filibusters have become so
much more common
how much for coming on
well by the late nineteen sixties
there'd be many sections of the u_s_ is true that no filibusters
uh... and the average session arafat heidi all-time high by the late nineteen
sixties
with seven about
and in recent years we've averaged over fifty filibusters a session
it hit a record two thousand eight hundred well
filibusters cc the number of these things just exploded
well i think i wondered there was also watching politics is
the filibuster is just the rules is to say that rule
and they can be taken out of the rules it anytime really may be ready to take
it out beginning the session
there's never taken out is on the constitution
uh... the senate has to agree to have it basically in the majority party is very
hot
now i understand what a minority party wanted to give them a lot more power
but what does the majority party session after session vote for
and i think that the reason they pay them they say well we want to minority
voice without all so they'll say where they don't appear to be dictators a
bilateral here's what i think
parties are not cover this it is not the split along party lines
their different ways this is about one state that fifties and sixties
where you had a democratic party that had these dixiecrats at the southern
races senators who won saturday's in
it but the majority of democratic party actually supported civil rights well
mats on the dixiecrats and we're sitting here discussing the rules and you need
me and my other southern senators boats
to get the rules passed
well my concern is the dixiecrats senator don't like put myself in that
position but my concern is
date you might go team up with a bunch of the world public into also support
civil rights
impassive lot of legislation
helping black people and that's the last thing the is a big secret one
so even though i mean the majority party
i actually like the filibuster because it prevents you the liberal uh...
centers of the democratic party from running roughshod over me by teaming up
with some republic is who agree with you
so i think that's one of the unit
take for example the day the democrats were in central
but you got a number of corporate est senators and
then also blasted
max baucus for example
to of course agree with the republicans on so many things become dishes like
taxation regulation
and they might be worry that barry sanders back and it was first final
omar al franken might team up and actually get the democratic party to do
something liberal and they want to be able to team up with the republicans
to shut that down
it so i think that's why i think because we can't think of these parties assault
voting block to the extent of her
factions within them
and i think even majority parties
liked being able to keep the other parts of their own party
and track
and that's my theory one filibusters their now want problem we're having is
that republican senators are pretty lock-step so it's not clear to me that
they take the senate back that they will have any motivation at all to maintain
the filibuster rule
uh... lag
dot i think it's easy to imagine getting rid of it
because they don't really in the house they do with the tea party but in the
senate as of yet they don't really have
sons were world group of senators like the dixiecrats bonds
uh... democrats that
that's my theory
pretty much just made it out but you know two things
is festering to what the district
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