current dynamics shaping filibuster reform so let's get started joining me on the panel tonight bob edgar former member of congress from pennsylvania now president and c.e.o. of common cause kurt walter research associate at the public campaign action fund and shane larson legislative director for the communication workers of america welcome to you all public campaign campaigns forgive the juror and. so let me start out occurred actually with you. sort of the beginning why was the filibuster when was the filibuster how is the filibuster conceived well that's the funny part about. the history of the filibuster is that there was no sort of strong start date to it it was not part of the constitution nothing along those lines and so it sort of was an accident of history and i'm sure bob and shane might know more about the exact date that it first began but i know it was about twenty years after the passage of the constitution and then it was just sort of established because. we now want to have a redundant rule and it was actually invented by accident by aaron burr twenty years after the cons

in the course of his career he has published such authors as david the karis, david edgar, bob dylan, ceravolo, and juno diaz. geoffrey kloske. [applause] >> thank you mari and thank you to the library. for holding this summit. of future that is we have discussed it a read in the papers is very much always in doubt. i teach a course at columbia about publishing and one thing that i always do is read them headlines about publishing, but "the new york times" and i quizzed them as to when they think those were written. there are things like you know editors don't edit and good books on published anymore and the decaying of our book culture and their intellectual culture and so forth. you can't find them in different forms but fairly similar forms almost every decade for the last 120 years. book publishing is a melancholy industry for some reason. we are always in a fallen age. i have been doing it for 20 years and the golden age ended right before i showed up. [laughter] and it really was in high swing, depending on the age of the person telling the story. but it has always been the case