Bob Bennett: “I would like to find a way to get that into discretionary funds. I am not sure we can.”

We cannot allow this to happen.

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

It takes 60 votes to get anything through the Senate. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

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.