Sunday, November 7, 2010

Filibusters

The idea of a filibuster sort of confuses me. I guess to an extent it is effective but it also causes to me to question whether what our members of Congress are doing is worthwhile or not. When i learned that in the history of our Congress one of the members filibustered for 15 hours by reading off recipes and other sorts or pointless material, I began to wonder if there is a "better" way to accomplish the same task. This method of extensive and chaotic distracting for as long as one can handle seems like a waste of time to me. I think our members of Congress should be able to discover a new method of "talking a bill to death," possibly without the talking aspect. Our country certainly has a lot of problems right about now and wasting time away on filibustering certain unpopular bills is not helping our country at all.

2 comments:

  1. I think that it is a waste of time and that the content that is spoken during a fillibuster should be about the bill and not about random things such as recipes.

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  2. I completely agree! It makes me question our Congress and loose hope that what they are doing is the most effective way of helping our country.

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