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It’s nice to see the senate opposition functioning.
Edit: 18 hours of holding the senate floor, giving voice to the american people. Lots of tears as american suffering is read out loud for the congressional record. Testiment from Americans across the country. This is the voice of the people. Please click the link, share and watch. The media needs to know we care about the opposition more than we care about trump rambling on a plane about fort knox.
I thought the republicans only had to threaten a filibuster but didn’t actually have to do it. But democrats have to do it live?
Yes because democrats are pushovers. Everyone knows that. Nice of Booker to show up with his spine and his shit talking voice. He’s a legend for this.
We might have to hold the flooor and filibuster for 2 years straight to save old America. Im glad somones got the balls to show up and do it. I’m here for it. In this house all we do is listen to filibuster and support the peoples power.
Technically it isn’t a filibuster,
Per https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/03/31/congress/cory-booker-talk-a-thon-00262482
It just behaves as you would expect a filibuster to behave. The standard no-show threatening is still a thing you can do.
idk where politico and news week are getting their definition of a filibuster, but talking for 24 hours to hold off a nomination vote is a filibuster to me. My community college education may have failed me but i interpret a 25 hour speech on the senate floor a filibuster.
I’ll be honest I assume it’s some parliamentary specifics. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s a filibuster to me. Allegedly it isn’t, but AFAIK, it is. It’s what I expect one to look like. It behaves like one. So it is.
By definition its a filibuster. I think everyone is saying its not a filibuster, because it can not be stopped through cloture. So under the senates procedures and protocols it cannot be voted down like a filibuster. Not that they have the votes anyway. And the rest are just undermining and don’t understand what a filibuster is. It’s their first time hearing about it and they are trusting news week to do their thinking.
A filibuster is just a long speech or something to delay the legislative session. it can be used for a specific bill, or as they are using it now, it can be used to delay a nomination vote for 24 hours. RIP NATO.
To be fair, filibuster has two meanings: this, and the other definition being an individual or small group of individuals, acting indepedently, taking over territory of another state in the name of their country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster_(military)?wprov=sfla1
Yes yes. English is hard. Words have 10 meanings and we also use idioms to really make it confusing.
Thats not the meeting we’re discussing since its a senator obstructing a legislative body via a long speech which is procedurally allowed.
Idk the workings of it but i heard that this type of filibuster hasn’t been done in many years. Idk if thats true but that’s what i heard
The distinction everyone is making is usually filibusters are held during a bill debate, before a bill can go to vote. In theory you would have to filibuster indefinitely until one side can get 60 votes to end the filibuster and pass the vote. It forces the other party to gather a larger majority or compromise.
This was delaying a vote on a nomination, it was also proving that they can and will filibuster, not just threaten to filibuster, but talk for 25 hours straight. someone should have continued after him because the nomination passed and i am sad again. 52 votes so more dem defectors yay.
Another senator can’t take over for Booker, only way it ends is when he cedes the floor. They were only able to ask questions to give him a break.
Fair. I’m no expert in congressional progression or procedures. I probably know more than Donald Trump, but that really doesn’t say much.