[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

It takes 41 to vote down cloture but not 40 to filibuster. A filibuster needs just enough courage to keep someone at the lectern 24/7, to keep it from being put to vote. Senator Robert Byrd is legendary for his ramblings while stalling legislation he stood against. With C-SPAN, perhaps Senator Sessions, Senator DeMint and a few others could rotate and read the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution and McGuffey’s Reader...and actually educate some people.

REMEMBER THE ALAMO.

[apocalypto]

BUMP

[CharlesWayneCT]

It doesn’t take 41 to vote down cloture. It takes 60 to INVOKE cloture.

Further, cloture is the way to end a filibuster. They already are under an agreement which controls the debate and doesn’t allow anybody to have the floor, and they’ve been careful to only give the floor to opponents under agreements that set time limits.

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

I don’t remember when the last real filibuster was used in the Senate. I know that Strom had the record and it was more than 24 hours. I must admit that I don’t know the Senate rules enough to know if a handful of Senators could keep rotating and yielding to each other holding up the vote. Sometimes there is an agreement to limit speaking time for each speaker. Perhaps someone knows the rules here on FR?