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But Democrats blocked it by denying 60, many of the same colleagues have spent weeks thundering… that the Senate's 60-vote threshold is an offensive tool of obstruction, a Jim Crow relic, declaring that simple majorities should always get their way. But late last week they literally wielded the 60-vote threshold themselves. – Mitch McConnell	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Many of the same colleagues have spent weeks thundering… that the Senate's 60-vote threshold is an offensive tool of obstruction, a Jim Crow relic, declaring that simple majorities should always get their way. But late last week they literally wielded the 60-vote threshold themselves. – Mitch McConnell	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We believe the filibuster has to be abolished, this relic has to go. It is really unfortunate that we have to have this discussion this time. ... This should have already been done. – Arndrea Waters King	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The same filibuster that the Democrats used to kill my police reform bill last year has not suddenly become a racist relic, race is not a political weapon to settle every issue the way one side wants. – Tim Scott	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The Flint Water Crisis is not some relic of the past. At this very moment the people of Flint continue to suffer from the categorical failure of public officials at all levels of government. – Fadwa Hammoud	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The decidedly Christian nature of these prayers must not be dismissed as the relic of a time when our Nation was less pluralistic than it is today. Congress continues to permit its appointed and visiting chaplains to express themselves in a religious idiom. … To hold that invocations must be nonsectarian would force the legislatures … and the courts … to act as … censors of religious speech. … Government may not mandate a civic religion that stifles any but the most generic reference to the sacred any more than it may prescribe a religious orthodoxy … – Justice Anthony Kennedy	added by Normando 4 years ago
It is highly improbable that this lock (of hair), which was presented like a (religious) relic, would be in anyway related to Leonardo da Vinci. – Eike Schmidt	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The traditional way of thinking,' men at work and women at home', is a historical relic in Japan, women in Japan want to keep their jobs, and their husbands want them to work so they can have a double income. – Yukiko Inoue-Smith	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I can see an only child me like me becoming a cultural relic. – Yu Ying	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The existence of such complex molecules in a comet, a relic of Solar System, imply that chemical processes at work during that time could have played a key role in fostering the formation of prebiotic material. – The European Space Agency	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It is within the established American tradition of satire, if America surrenders on this point, the freedom of speech is a relic of history. – Pamela Geller	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living. – Emily Brontë	added by anonymous 10 years ago
This Rock has become an object of veneration in the United States. I have seen bits of it carefully preserved in several towns in the Union. Does this sufficiently show that all human power and greatness is in the soul of man? Here is a stone which the feet of a few outcasts pressed for an instant; and the stone becomes famous; it is treasured by a great nation; its very dust is shared as a relic. – Alexis DeTocqueville	added by anonymous 13 years ago

But Democrats blocked it by denying 60, many of the same colleagues have spent weeks thundering… that the Senate's 60-vote threshold is an offensive tool of obstruction, a Jim Crow relic, declaring that simple majorities should always get their way. But late last week they literally wielded the 60-vote threshold themselves.

– Mitch McConnell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Many of the same colleagues have spent weeks thundering… that the Senate's 60-vote threshold is an offensive tool of obstruction, a Jim Crow relic, declaring that simple majorities should always get their way. But late last week they literally wielded the 60-vote threshold themselves.

– Mitch McConnell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We believe the filibuster has to be abolished, this relic has to go. It is really unfortunate that we have to have this discussion this time. ... This should have already been done.

– Arndrea Waters King

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The same filibuster that the Democrats used to kill my police reform bill last year has not suddenly become a racist relic, race is not a political weapon to settle every issue the way one side wants.

– Tim Scott

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The Flint Water Crisis is not some relic of the past. At this very moment the people of Flint continue to suffer from the categorical failure of public officials at all levels of government.

– Fadwa Hammoud

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The decidedly Christian nature of these prayers must not be dismissed as the relic of a time when our Nation was less pluralistic than it is today. Congress continues to permit its appointed and visiting chaplains to express themselves in a religious idiom. … To hold that invocations must be nonsectarian would force the legislatures … and the courts … to act as … censors of religious speech. … Government may not mandate a civic religion that stifles any but the most generic reference to the sacred any more than it may prescribe a religious orthodoxy …

– Justice Anthony Kennedy

added by Normando
4 years ago

It is highly improbable that this lock (of hair), which was presented like a (religious) relic, would be in anyway related to Leonardo da Vinci.

– Eike Schmidt

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The traditional way of thinking,' men at work and women at home', is a historical relic in Japan, women in Japan want to keep their jobs, and their husbands want them to work so they can have a double income.

– Yukiko Inoue-Smith

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I can see an only child me like me becoming a cultural relic.

– Yu Ying

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The existence of such complex molecules in a comet, a relic of Solar System, imply that chemical processes at work during that time could have played a key role in fostering the formation of prebiotic material.

– The European Space Agency

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It is within the established American tradition of satire, if America surrenders on this point, the freedom of speech is a relic of history.

– Pamela Geller

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

– Emily Brontë

added by anonymous
10 years ago

This Rock has become an object of veneration in the United States. I have seen bits of it carefully preserved in several towns in the Union. Does this sufficiently show that all human power and greatness is in the soul of man? Here is a stone which the feet of a few outcasts pressed for an instant; and the stone becomes famous; it is treasured by a great nation; its very dust is shared as a relic.

– Alexis DeTocqueville

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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