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Filibusters a Great American Tradition

U.S. Congress, U.S. Politics, Governance, U.S. Judiciary, Politics

Sarah A. Binder, Senior Fellow, Governance Studies
Steven S. Smith, Professor

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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Research and Commentary

Save to My PortfolioThis Battle Isn't New: The Filibustering of Judicial Nominations

Sarah A. Binder and Steven Smith, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, March 06, 2005

Research and Commentary

Save to My PortfolioThe 'Nuclear' Option for Ending Filibusters

Sarah A. Binder, NPR's Morning Edition, January 04, 2005

Research and Commentary

Save to My PortfolioThe Difficulty of Reforming Senate ""Holds""

Sarah A. Binder, Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, June 17, 2003

Research and Commentary

Save to My PortfolioThe Senate Strangles Itself

Sarah A. Binder, The New York Times, July 13, 1996

Research and Commentary

Save to My PortfolioImpact of the DeLay Indictment on Congress and the GOP

Sarah A. Binder, Washingtonpost.com, September 30, 2005

Research and Commentary

Save to My PortfolioThe Filibuster Debate

Sarah A. Binder, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, May 16, 2005

Research and Commentary

Save to My PortfolioOne Year Later: Is Congress Still the Broken Branch?

Sarah A. Binder, Thomas E. Mann and Molly Reynolds, The Brookings Institution, January 22, 2008

Research and Commentary

Save to My PortfolioIs the Broken Branch on the Mend? An Early Report on the 110th Congress

Thomas E. Mann, Sarah A. Binder and Molly Reynolds, The Brookings Institution, September 04, 2007

Research and Commentary

Save to My PortfolioThe Business of Congress After September 11: A Look Back and at What's Ahead for 2002

Bill Frenzel and Sarah A. Binder, The Brookings Institution, January 01, 2002

Research and Commentary

Save to My PortfolioGoing Nowhere: A Gridlocked Congress

Sarah A. Binder, The Brookings Institution, December 01, 2000

Research and Commentary

Save to My PortfolioThe 105th: It Could've Been a Contender

Sarah A. Binder and Thomas E. Mann, The Washington Post, October 18, 1998

Research and Commentary

Save to My PortfolioThe Disappearing Political Center: Congress and the Incredible Shrinking Middle

Sarah A. Binder, The Brookings Institution, September 01, 1996

Past Event

Save to My PortfolioCan an Independent Judiciary Be Accountable?

Friday, June 10, 2005
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Washington, DC

Research and Commentary

Save to My PortfolioThe End of Bipartisanship for Obama's Big Initiatives?

Sarah A. Binder, The Washington Post, March 22, 2009

Research and Commentary

Save to My PortfolioHarriet Miers Nomination

Thomas E. Mann, The Diane Rehm Show (WAMU), October 10, 2005

Past Event

Save to My PortfolioA Divided Senate: Bipartisan Harmony or Legislative Discord?

Wednesday, April 04, 2001
12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Washington, DC

Research and Commentary

Save to My PortfolioA Collapse of the Campaign Finance Regime?

Thomas E. Mann, The Forum, Volume 6, Issue 1, April 16, 2008

Research and Commentary

Save to My PortfolioPresidential Candidates: Where Do They Stand?

Alan Murphy, Sarah A. Binder and Thomas E. Mann, The New York Times, July 26, 2004

Research and Commentary

Save to My PortfolioBush and Lieberman: Two Pols in an Ideological Pod?

Sarah A. Binder and Thomas E. Mann, The Brookings Institution, August 10, 2000

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