Joe has said that he will not get rid of the filibuster, but he`s open to modify it.
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Al Franken is an American politician, comedian, and author who served as the junior United States Senator from Minnesota from 2009 until 2018. A member of the Democratic Party, Franken gained national prominence as a writer and performer on 'Saturday Night Live' before transitioning to politics. During his time in the Senate, he focused on issues such as healthcare, education, and consumer protection, and was known for his sharp wit and advocacy for progressive policies. He was a member of several Senate committees, including the Judiciary and Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committees.
They pack the court with Federalist Society judges during Trump and with really partisan, unqualified judges.
Mitch McConnell made it very clear that if in 22 they pick up the majority, that he will not allow a Biden nominee for the Supreme Court to get to -- will get heard, just like Merrick Garland.
If we lose this one, if we allow this to overturn elections, elected officials, elected Republican officials to overturn elections, our democracy goes away.
Democrats aren’t trying to take your guns away. They’re trying to make people a little safer.
There are two universes of information right now. There’s information. And there’s disinformation.
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.
Even though 70 percent of the American people favored the COVID relief bill, every Republican voted against it.
The one thing you don’t do when you have a statewide crisis like this is go to Cancun. You don’t go on vacation.
They are the most anti-democratic party. And I think that’s very bad for our democracy.
This is Trump’s party, certainly in Georgia, and this is -- there is just a split in this party and it couldn’t happen to a nicer party. Unfortunately, I think it’s bad for democracy.
Everything he does is calculated and everything he does is cynical and most of it is evil.
I mean, at one point in the speech, he said that, well, you know, incitement is a legal term but there’s no doubt that he provoked this.
I don`t think so. I think that they`re afraid of the base. I like what you saw there, the two Republicans spoke there do represent both sides of the party. And I think we know which side is stronger. They`re afraid.
This is basically what Donald Trump did. And then there`s no recourse. This is the founders worst nightmare that someone would use the power of the White House to try to steal the election and then basically just get away with it.
I think we`re going to see much of a pass through reconciliation. And I don`t think we`re going to see it -- we may see 60 for some compromise aspects of it, but there`s a huge difference between the $1.9 trillion package, that is the…
Donald Trump doesn't care about anybody but Donald Trump, and he hasn't cared about these two candidates really in Georgia at all.
This is not the time you threatened to veto a bill. You -- first of all, you should have been here -- there negotiating the whole time.
I have to agree with how pernicious the Republican Party is today and has been for a long time.
What Mitch McConnell did today, it was a disgrace to wait until now. It was an absolute disgrace. He's a disgrace.
I hope it is Richard Burr or Susan Collins so we can pick up a Senate seat because we got the right governors there. Look, contrast this to the people Trump picked. There is no comparison. He is picking competent, experienced people.
The longer they refuse to acknowledge that Joe Biden won fairly, the more Republican base will buy into the fiction that this was rigged, and that undermines democracy, and that causes lasting damage.
Every farmer I've talked to this year, whether they're with the Farm Bureau, which is a conservative group or the Farmers Union liberal group, they've all had the worst year ever. And it's because of the trade war.
One of the things -- and this is especially rural voters. They love Medicaid expansion.
I really like the Affordable Care Act. I really like it. I like the 10 essential health benefits. I like Medicaid expansion. I like that I'm covered if I have preexisting conditions.





