The popular conception of the Senate "talking filibuster" is not a requirement and is nowadays relatively rare. Today, filibusters are ubiquitous but on the most part rather boring (and, many would say, especially other senators kept waiting, annoying). This is because around the 1970s, the Senate decided that they needed to be able to have more than one bill on the floor at the same time, so now debate will often simply switch over to another bill during a filibuster (Source: New York Times).
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