Political Quotes

“Of course his statement is untrue and I don't accept that. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I believe I have the floor. That is the point. What the majority leader is saying is he will break the rules of the Senate in order to change the rules of the Senate. It has been the case in the past that it took a supermajority of 67, which of course meant most rules changes occurred because the two leaders agreed to them and were proposing them jointly. Instead, what the majority leader is saying is he will propose to change the rules with 51 votes, meaning his side gets to decide what the rules are. The danger of that, of course, is let us assume--I know the majority leader thinks he is going to be the majority leader forever; he isn't. What if it is 2 years from now and what if my Members say, well, if 51 Democrats can change the rules of the Senate, why can't the Republicans? Why should we have to fiddle with these people in the minority? What is the point? Why not just change the rules of the Senate and turn the Senate into the House? That is why Lyndon Johnson felt so strongly that a rules change should require a supermajority of 67, not 60, thereby virtually guaranteeing that any significant changes in the way the body operates are done on a bipartisan basis.…”