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...that they've drawn national attention, would the students support a Capital Hill deal to avert the expected vote? No. "Any sort of compromise that undermines the filibuster isn't really a compromise," says Jason Vagliano, a graduating Princeton senior and a registered Independent. "It's abolishing a 200-year-old protection of the minority voice in Congress...
...feel that the Senate is a deliberative body and it’s always been intended to be such, and checks and balances are part of the whole system,” said Jason B. Vagliano, a senior at Princeton who is one of the organizers of the filibuster...
...Frist is making it impossible to do anything about it,” Vagliano said yesterday. “The basic point, though, is that this is an assault on 200 years of Senate tradition...
According to Vagliano, the filibuster started small, with a few students reading behind a music stand. They now have a more elaborate setup, with a tent and a live webcam connected to Vagliano’s computer. A live feed can be found at www.filibusterfrist.com...
...Daily Princetonian reported last week that the filibuster faced an obstacle on its first day, when public safety officers said the students needed a permit to continue their demonstration. Princeton’s Dean of Undergraduate Students Kathleen Deignan approved the event shortly after. Vagliano said there has been no pressure to end the filibuster since, and it will continue at least into early next week...