The Senator knows that a majority of those jobs are high-wage jobs. As far as the deficit they talked about--how this deficit was going to be exploding--$300 billion a year in deficit, and it was masked because there was about $100 billion a year we used to offset the debt, which would have been really $400 billion.
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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.
The campaign financing is the root of all evil in Congress. It’s very, very bad. And we need to start with something very simple, be done with a simple majority.
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