U.S. State Secretaries of State

The Founding Fathers were wise. The current rules are the result of experience and trial and testing over the period going back to the beginning of this republic. The previous question was done away with, as I have already stated, almost…

My friends and others have stated that there are only five instances, in the Constitution, of reference to a supermajority. I call their attention to amendment 12 of the Constitution, which provides that in the election of a President by…

I feel very deeply that as long as we have a Senate in which there is unlimited debate, the liberties of the American people will always be protected. I think that we change that rule at our peril, and at the peril of the liberties of the…

Well, Mr. President, I want to protect the right of the minority on a matter of substance in particular. But do the Senators not agree that most of the cloture motions that have been laid down by the majority leader in the past few years…

Would not the Senator agree that filibusters used in such instances as he has just related here are not the filibusters which have caused the Senate the problems of abuse which most Senators and I perceive as being problems? Do the…