The U.S. Senate Is Broken -- But We Can Fix It
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60 Seconds: Secret Senator Interview About Our Broken Government
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Q: Senator, Why is the Senate broken?
A: Broken!? Broken for Who? ...
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It would almost be funny -- if the filibuster consequences weren't so dang serious.
Q: Senator, Why is the Senate broken?
Senator Tom Udall (D-NM), a sponsor to the new "Talking Filibuster" rule change, due to happen (or not) tomorrow, has a few serious answers for Chris Hayes ...
Dems to make good on the promise of Filibuster Reform?
Up with Chris Hayes -- Jan 20, 2013
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Filling in the Public on Filibuster abuses
Up with Chris Hayes -- Jan 20, 2013
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Q: Senator, do you talk to Voters about this [Filibuster Reform], and if so what are those conversations like?
Senator Tom Udall:
They're amazing things. Starting just over little more than 3 years ago, that in Townhall meetings, in discussions, in a variety of settings, this is a big issue now.
People understand it. More than anything, people understand the 'Talking Filibuster.' The idea that 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.' And people remember that principled Mr. Smith going to the Senate Floor and trying to fight off the action that was going on. And they think: "Why isn't that going on now?"
Well, because the Senate's Broken. We've got to restore that. We've got bring THAT back to the Senate Floor.
I think our distinguished Senator from New Mexico, I think he means
THIS -- this
is WHAT the People get:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) - James Stewart
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Very good questions Mr Smith ...
"Where have those champions of 'lost causes' gone?" ... will they remain stealthily and secretly silenced, by the anonymous filibuster objections, whispered far from the cameras, by the Senate's stonewall status quo?
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