I am told that S. 743 is due for a second reading. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will read the title of the bill for the second time. The assistant legislative clerk read as follows: A bill (S. 743) to restore States' sovereign rights to enforce State and local sales and use tax laws, and for other purposes.
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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.
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.
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.
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