I understand that Senator Paul has an amendment that he wants to offer to this short-term funding bill. I'm talking about his amendment to permanently reduce the tax rate for repatriated income to 5 percent. He has agreed not to offer that amendment here. In exchange, we commit that when the Senate considers a long-term highway funding bill, Senator Paul will be allowed to offer and get a vote on his amendment then.
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As a result of that, Barack Obama will go down as having the most successful Congress in the history of the country. Barack Obama changed the world.
The country is better off having a real democracy, not a fake democracy. Sixty percent is not a democracy.
if some rule of the Senate stands in the way of getting that, making sure that every American has the right to vote and the vote counted, then we got to change that rule.
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.
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