I want to say, because I saw on the floor the Senator from Arizona, Senator Jon Kyl, who has been extremely helpful in preparing this legislation based upon his experience in the law and the work his staff has done, and I want to compliment and applaud the Senator from Arizona.
Praising Senator Jon Kyl for his contributions to legislation.
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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.
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 country is better off having a real democracy, not a fake democracy. Sixty percent is not a democracy.
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.
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