On the recordOctober 12, 2013
I ask for its second reading and object to my own request. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection having been heard, the joint resolution will be read for a second time on the next legislative day. ____________________
I ask for its second reading and object to my own request. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection having been heard, the joint resolution will be read for a second time on the next legislative day. ____________________
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The filibuster is nondemocratic. It has been used to the disarray of the Congress. And, certainly, it hasn’t been anything that has helped -- been helpful to the American people. It’s got to go.
But the purpose of politics that Harry Reid understood very well is to get stuff done.
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.
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.