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the whole question of minority rights in the Senate is one of the most significant ones we can deal with, and the filibuster has changed over the years.

If we did away with the dual track... then you do have the 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,' but the Senate cannot function.

I can understand the impulse for a moratorium. I am not at all sure that a blanket moratorium as broad as this one will produce any higher degree of safety than a more targeted kind of thing.

So I think the rule change that said it is a constitutional supermajority of all the Senators duly sworn is a step in the level of accountability for one's position with respect to a piece of legislation.