Bob Bennett: “I'm a strong supporter of the Critical Path Initiative and it was started to address the concern about the rising…”

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

We should be very, very careful as we proceed in these waters because we can mess things up pretty badly.

the current Majority Leader has used this tactic at a rate more than double that of his predecessor and five times as often as the last five Majority Leaders combined.

It may very well be that the solution to the problems that we talk about as a dysfunctional Senate lies somewhere other than amending the filibuster rule.