Under the authority of the agreement pending before the Senate, I send an amendment to the desk on behalf of Senator Byrd. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The bill clerk read as follows: The Senator from Nevada [Mr. Reid], for Mr. Byrd, proposes an amendment numbered 1218.
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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.
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The country is better off having a real democracy, not a fake democracy. Sixty percent is not a democracy.
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