BARBARA BOXER: Those poor clerks had to stay there over time reading the bill. It was a stall--
BILL MOYERS: Four hundred and ninety-two pages' worth?
BARBARA BOXER: --a stall tactic.
SEN. HARRY REID: We find ourselves confronting an orchestrate effort by the Republican leader to delay and obstruct. We've seen this play a record number of times before this body. In ten months we all know they broke the two year-filibuster record. We're now, I believe, at 72 filibusters.
72 filibusters in ten months. I had heard nothing of this before. So much for bi-partisan politics.