It’s nice to see the senate opposition functioning.

Edit: 18 hours of holding the senate floor, giving voice to the american people. Lots of tears as american suffering is read out loud for the congressional record. Testiment from Americans across the country. This is the voice of the people. Please click the link, share and watch. The media needs to know we care about the opposition more than we care about trump rambling on a plane about fort knox.

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    I’ll be honest I assume it’s some parliamentary specifics. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s a filibuster to me. Allegedly it isn’t, but AFAIK, it is. It’s what I expect one to look like. It behaves like one. So it is.

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      By definition its a filibuster. I think everyone is saying its not a filibuster, because it can not be stopped through cloture. So under the senates procedures and protocols it cannot be voted down like a filibuster. Not that they have the votes anyway. And the rest are just undermining and don’t understand what a filibuster is. It’s their first time hearing about it and they are trusting news week to do their thinking.

      A filibuster is just a long speech or something to delay the legislative session. it can be used for a specific bill, or as they are using it now, it can be used to delay a nomination vote for 24 hours. RIP NATO.