Princeton "Filibuster Frist" Statement on "the Deal"

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Princeton "Filibuster Frist" Statement on the Deal
Mon May 23rd, 2005 at 20:11:09 PDT

Princeton students participated in a 384 hour filibuster that ended in a 24 hour DC filibuster with Senators Lautenberg, Corzine and Schumer. The movement spread to over 50 campuses across the country in 35 states and inspired over 100 citizen filibusters organized by MoveOn that were planned for Tuesday. Our statement regarding the compromise agreement is below:

The Senate has agreed to preserve the filibuster. This is a victory for the students and citizens who worked so hard and spoke so eloquently in support of our democratic system of checks and balances. We congratulate all of them and we thank all of them. We also thank the many people who supported what became a national movement, a genuine expression of the electorate. Did they listen to us? It's hard to say. But no one can question that we were heard and we, students of all political persuasions, achieved our goal.

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