The Democrats filibustered something in the Senate when I was eight years old. I don't remember what it was on and I didn't honestly care when I was eight years old. I cared about the history and the Senate rules.
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I've been interested in American politics since I was eight. That was in 1968. It was an interesting year. I was a huge Eugene McCarthy supporter, so I guess he was the first senator I really knew about and cared about.
I mean, if you go back to 1960 on major pieces of legislation, the filibuster was used about eight percent of the time.
Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only.
For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat.
I was one of the first 18-year-olds in the United States elected to public office right after 18-year-olds got the right to vote back in the early '70s. I ran for the Board of Education.
I cast my first vote on my father's lap in 1960, for Richard Nixon, in the voting booth. I was 8.
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.
Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.
No one ever built the filibuster rule. It just kind of was created.
I got into politics when I was eight years old.