Filibuster: Quick Facts

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Should the U.S. Senate Keep the Filibuster?

James Stewart as Jefferson Smith stands in the Senate chamber surrounded by piles of letters and baskets of mail, addressing a group of seated men in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.

The Burr-Hamilton duel.

Kentucky Whig Sen. Henry Clay

United States Senator Strom Thurmond in a suit and striped tie, seated in front of a bookshelf filled with books.

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