I say to my friend through the Chair that I see what is developing now as very, very bad for our country. It is hard to comprehend--I ask my friend this question--it is hard to comprehend how the House of Representatives, at the height of this fiscal crisis we have, has decided to take the weekend off. Is the Senator aware they have decided to take the weekend off?
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Get rid of the filibuster. It’s nothing. As Barack Obama said at John Lewis’ funeral, it’s part of the leftovers from the days of slave owners. You have got to get rid of it. It’s very bad.
He has no regrets. He says he had to do it to save Obama’s presidency because of what the Republicans were doing to obstruct the president’s confirmation of judges and other legislative things.
But the purpose of politics that Harry Reid understood very well is to get stuff done.
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