I ask unanimous consent that the request be modified--I reluctantly do this--to set a 60-affirmative-vote threshold on each of the amendments and passage of the bill. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Oregon. Intelligence Authorization
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Let ‘em do it. Why in the world would we care? We were trying to protect everybody.
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.
The filibuster is going away. It is nothing that helps the country. It doesn’t help states. It doesn’t help individuals. It is on its way out. It’s a question of when it goes.
The Republican Party that we now have is not the Republican Party of John Chafee, Mark Hatfield, those people who were really stalwarts in moving the country forward.
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