This year, America turns 250 years old, and it deserves a birthday present. It is time for the Senate to shake off the dust and bring back the talking filibuster.

Most of us have seen "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington." We watched riveted as the junior senator, after hours and hours of grueling but adamant monologue on the Senate floor, fights desperately for what he believes in, cost what it may physically, mentally, and emotionally. And yet in the end, his herculean effort, his willingness to sacrifice publicly for what he believed in, to defend his position no matter the cost—because he actually believed in it—was the key to unlocking his success; for as the film closes, he claims victory through the sheer willingness to give so much for what is most important.

This was just a movie (and a wonderful one), but in real life, the talking filibuster also has a........

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