Jeff Merkley: “I have in front of me the list of the number of times the application of a rule was changed from the precedent. It was…”

“I have in front of me the list of the number of times the application of a rule was changed from the precedent. It was done each time under a simple majority structure, and it was done 10 times since 1985. I pointed out earlier--I am not sure if my colleague was on the floor--that seven of these times this was done under Republican leadership. So seven times Republicans came to the floor and said: We are going to change the application of a rule under redirection of the precedent or overruling of the precedent. I want to ask if the Senator is familiar with that because the way he was speaking, it sounded as if this conversation is about something--a procedure that had never been done. Yet it was done seven times since 1985 by my Republican colleagues.”