Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When you use the word 'filibuster,' most of us in America - and I count myself among them - envision it as the ability to hold the floor on rare occasions to speak at length and make your point emphatically and even delay progress by taking hours.
It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we could prepare a Bill better than the Remedial Bill.
There are two ways of looking at the talking filibuster. My way is as a form of unanimous consent.
My view of the filibuster is either you've got to lower vote edge or make people really filibuster if they feel that seriously about a piece of legislation.
It seems as though there are Members in this body who want to filibuster just about everything we try to do, whether it is stopping judicial nominations, the Energy bill, or this Medicare bill.
I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
You don't want to destroy the energy that comes out of a campaign.
I don't want to pass a punitive law, or use politics as a vendetta.
When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
My way of viewing the talking filibuster was as a way of doing unanimous consent with your feet. You object by going down and talking.