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Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of a filibuster is enough to stop a vote; senators are rarely asked to pull all-nighters like Jimmy Stewart in 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.'
As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America.
| Rick Allen, Musician (1963) |
| Larry Flynt, Publisher (1942) |
| Matthew Hale, Historian (1609) |
| Mary Hansen, Musician (1966) |
| Rafik Hariri, Statesman (1944) |
| Darrell Issa, Politician (1953) |
| John Joly, Scientist (1857) |
| Mitch Kapor, Businessman (1950) |
| Mitchell Kapor, Businessman (1950) |
| Charlie Kaufman, Writer (1958) |
| Dale Carnegie, Writer (1955) |
| Richard L. Evans, Clergyman (1971) |
| Theodore Hall, Criminal (1999) |
| Alfred Jarry, Writer (1907) |


