On the recordDecember 6, 2012
Madam President, I say in response to the Senator from Michigan, the Senate Republican leader, Senator McConnell, has such a strong appetite for the filibuster that we have seen 386 or 387 filibusters in the last 6 years, and now he has decided another good idea is to propose a bill and then filibuster your own bill. I do believe that is history in the making. But that is why this appetite for the filibuster in the Senate has to change. What an abuse, that we cannot have a majority vote on something the Republicans proposed and the Democrats were prepared to vote for. This would have been a true bipartisan measure, good news--maybe leading the news--across America. It really is unfortunate.
