We would be willing to enter into a time agreement if we saw the amendments and they were reasonable and we thought we could do that. But not having them, we can't do that. The Senator from Washington, if there would have been an up-or-down amendment, would have agreed to a 40-minute time limit evenly divided.
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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.
But the purpose of politics that Harry Reid understood very well is to get stuff done.
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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