filibuster to kill good bills that would help working Americans. He believes special interest drives Senators to use the filibuster and doesn't want it to be 60 votes to invoke cloture but rather 51 Senators.

This video shows how Senators feel about the filibuster and how it can be used unfairly in the Senate.

The next video shows Senator Dick Durban from Illinois. This video is brief and not as in depth but shows how the threat of a filibuster can really empower a minority power and scare the majority power at the time. Although during his time of speaking, he is speaking about the banks, he makes it a point to show how the American people are noticing that the minority party can hold up a bill and givesso complicated that no one could really follow which shell the pea was under. Fortunes were made on the paper Wall Street sold. At the same time, Washington's watchdogs were dozing, tranquilized by the false assurance that Wall Street would police its own. It's been obvious for years now that Wall Street could not be trusted, and finally official Washington agrees. The markets need a tougher cop to make sure that money-center banks, investment banks, credit-rating agencies, hedge funds, mortgage brokers and the rest don't let their own greed and arrogance ruin it for the rest of us. "Regulation needs to catch up with innovation," Paulson said, and he was backed up by the rest of President Bush's working group on financial markets, including Federal Reserve Chairman Ben