So that when my colleagues on the other side, who aren't here, when they sing the praises of fracturing and then demonize government involvement in picking winners and losers, it seems like they don't know the history of this industry.
Critiques colleagues for ignoring government's role in the shale industry.
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I have been pushing something that Norm Ornstein and I have worked on together for a long time, which would be a reform of the filibuster.
Mitch McConnell filibustered more executive nominees when Barack Obama was president than had been filibustered in the entire previous history of the United States.
We have to pass this bill and you can carve out and say for, you know, elections, this is our democracy.
This is not a bill that we can pass through reconciliation like we did the Relief Act. So this immediately brings to question the filibuster.
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