Former Senators McClure and Wallop on Filibusters
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Wallop and McClure wrote in the Wall Street Journal today as follows (courtesy of the Committee for Justice):
Within the Senate itself, there is the two-speech rule ....It could eventually strangle an initial judicial filibuster, and it would make subsequent ones far less likely.
If they are correct, however, then it appears the two-speech rule could be used just as easily to end a legislative filibuster as a nomination filibuster.
UPDATE: The two-speech rule is also discussed in an April 5, 2005 report from the Congressional Research Service at pages 9-10. The CRS Report also discusses another technique at pages 9-10: when filibusterers ask for quorum calls, rule them dilatory and out of order. Combining these two techniques together could form quite a potent combination.
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