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The Greatest Filibusters

As Sen. Joe Lieberman threatens to filibuster the Senate health-care bill, The Daily Beast looks back on obstructionism’s greatest hits. From presumed poisonings and Roquefort salad dressing recipes to public urination and the 15 hours devoted to saving a typewriter company, the strange and twisted history of the Senate filibuster.

Updated Jul. 14, 2017 7:21PM ET / Published Nov. 09, 2009 8:13AM ET 

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