02/06/2012
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"I do not see that the leverage of another filibuster, which is still going to require 60 votes when you get to the Bill itself, is a necessary commodity."
"What does a filibuster really accomplish other than delay and, in some cases, defeat of a nomination?"
"I worry about the Senate as an institution, but then I worry, if the Senate is not working as an institution, then we are not doing the things the American people sent us here to do."
"I do think the problem is more of the culture than it is the rules, that the rules operated better in a previous era."