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Chuck Schumer: Let me please answer my colleague's question. The bottom line is the other side has said--and in the chart of the…

On the recordNovember 12, 2003
Let me please answer my colleague's question. The bottom line is the other side has said--and in the chart of the Senator from Pennsylvania, he was careful. He said ``successfully filibustered, none.'' Then when it was repeated by many of the other colleagues, they said there has never been a filibuster. As my good colleague from Nevada pointed out, there have been filibusters. Here are some of the judges who have been filibustered. Don't claim there has never been a filibuster. In fact, I would ask anyone on the other side, when you filibustered just 3 years ago, did anybody object and say the Constitution is being defiled? Judge Berzon was filibustered in 2000. Judge Paez was filibustered in 2000. Judge Sarokin was filibustered in 1994. I didn't hear the outcries from the Senator from Pennsylvania or others that filibuster is constitutionally wrong. Oh, no. Oh, no. So the one difference----
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Chuck Schumer
Democratic · New York

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Discussing the existence of filibusters during Senate debate.

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