… position, they started negotiating amendments, perhaps initially to save face with the American people, and eventually in an effort to try to resolve whatever lingering substantive concerns they had. And They were able to do that. And they negotiated amendments and they adopted amendments, and those amendments eventually were sufficient for them to be able to overcome a 32 vote cloture deficit. And the law passed. And with that came the end of the oppressive Jim Crow era. I believe, Mr. President, that the time has come again when we need that kind of filibuster. (1:51:44–1:51:59)
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Asserts that amendments were negotiated and adopted to overcome a 32-vote cloture deficit, allowing the Civil Rights Act to pass.
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