There could be a filibuster against a tax reduction or an effort to close tax loopholes. There could be a filibuster against a declaration of war or measures to defend our Nation. In the past. whether the issue has been a fiscal matter. conservation. economic development. immigration. the national security. statehood. or civil rights. whenever a determined minority has set out to prevent the will of the majority from being enacted. the result has been foreign to the hallowed precepts of a constitutional democracy. I shall now discuss very briefly the changes presented. Briefly stated. the AndersonMorton proposal would invoke cloture through a vote of threefifths of the Senators present and voting.
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