Once you open that Pandora's box, it is just a matter of time before a Senate leader who could not get his way on something moved to eliminate the filibuster for regular business as well and that simply put would be the end of the United States Senate.
Reid warned about the consequences of changing filibuster rules.
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The country is better off having a real democracy, not a fake democracy. Sixty percent is not a democracy.
Never in the history of the country, never in the history of the country have we produced more for a president and somebody that’s led his party than we’ve done together.
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.
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.
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