On the recordDecember 14, 2011
I now object to any further proceedings at this time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. The bill will be placed on the calendar. ____________________
I now object to any further proceedings at this time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. The bill will be placed on the calendar. ____________________
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The country is better off having a real democracy, not a fake democracy. Sixty percent is not a democracy.
You cannot have a democracy that record 60 percent of the vote on everything. And that’s what the Republicans have done. They have made a mockery of what the Senate should be.
The filibuster is nondemocratic. It has been used to the disarray of the Congress. And, certainly, it hasn’t been anything that has helped -- been helpful to the American people. It’s got to go.
But the purpose of politics that Harry Reid understood very well is to get stuff done.