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On the recordJanuary 23, 2025
I think we all remember the situation just a few short months ago in the lead-up to the election. Democrat Senators and Senate candidates were declaring their commitment to eliminating the filibuster or creating carve-outs that would render it meaningless. The Democratic leader himself made it very clear that the days of the filibuster were numbered, telling a crowd at the Democratic National Convention that his party would be changing the rules to pass the Democrats' Federal takeover of elections. The filibuster, it seemed, was on its way out. Fast-forward to yesterday. Yesterday, it seems there was a sudden change of heart because yesterday every Senate Democrat--the Democratic leader, new Democratic Senators, long-serving Democratic Senators who had expressed their desire to get rid of the filibuster--joined together and filibustered a bill. That is right. Every Democratic Senator participated in a filibuster of yesterday's legislation. I will leave aside the disturbing fact that Democrats chose to unite to block a bill to protect living, breathing, newborn children born alive after an attempted abortion. What I want to talk about today is Democrats' apparent belief that there should be one rule for Democrats and another rule for everyone else.…
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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