Now, the constitutional principle was made, and it has been acknowledged by three Vice Presidents, it has been used a number of times in the past. The reason we are doing this, as the Senator from Alabama knows, is that the amount of secret, silent filibusters that have occurred here has been extraordinary. LBJ had one. Harry Reid has had close to 400.
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