Bob Bennett: “Do you know who is holding him? It is not a secret hold. All right. It is Senator Feingold and Senator McCain.”

I can understand the impulse for a moratorium. I am not at all sure that a blanket moratorium as broad as this one will produce any higher degree of safety than a more targeted kind of thing.

I do not think that is what the original filibuster rule had in mind, but it has become the norm.

The ability to obstruct is not unanimously and solely part of the United States Senate.

the whole question of minority rights in the Senate is one of the most significant ones we can deal with, and the filibuster has changed over the years.