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Former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell: Plan to Ban Filbusters, "Unprecedented, Unfair and Unwise"
3 April 2005

Yesterday in the Democratic weekly radio address, Former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell called the Republican plan to ban filibusters of judicial nominees, "unprecedented, unfair and unwise."

"Neither I nor any other senator, Republican or Democrat, ever dreamed of taking the kind of drastic action now being proposed," said Mitchell, a former federal judge himself who was majority leader from 1988-95 as a senator from Maine.

"We had the power to do so, but we refrained from exercising that power because it was as wrong then as it is now. The end does not justify the means."

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