Is It Time to Abolish the Filibuster?
Into America
Trymaine Lee, MS NOW
4.6 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:01.0 | Counsel woman wishes to speak on this issue. |
| 0:08.1 | Will the counsel woman yield her time? |
| 0:10.3 | No, I will not yield. |
| 0:12.3 | A filibuster? |
| 0:13.3 | The Senate's a yeet monster. |
| 0:14.6 | I will ask you. |
| 0:17.1 | To filibuster. |
| 0:18.1 | To filibuster. |
| 0:19.1 | The filibuster? |
| 0:20.1 | Another Jim Crow relic? |
| 0:23.1 | With regard to the filibuster, I believe we should go back to a position in the filibuster |
| 0:27.8 | that existed just when I came to the United States Senate 120 years ago. |
| 0:32.0 | The filibuster. |
| 0:33.0 | It's part of the legislative process that most of us think we understand. |
| 0:38.0 | Maybe you've seen a version of it in a movie. |
| 0:40.0 | Will the Senate have yield? |
| 0:41.0 | Will the Senate be yield? |
| 0:42.0 | No, sir, I'm afraid not. |
| 0:44.0 | And we might as well all get together on this yielding business right off the bat now. |
| 0:50.1 | A US Senator tries to derail a vote by standing in the chamber and talking and talking and |
| 0:56.8 | talking until they bore their colleagues in the submission. |
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