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Joe Manchin: “I looked back, when it went from 67 votes to 60 votes, and also, what was happening, what made them think that it needed…”

On the recordJune 16, 2021
I looked back, when it went from 67 votes to 60 votes, and also, what was happening, what made them think that it needed to change. So, I`m open to looking at it, I`m just not open to getting rid of the filibuster.
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Joe Manchin
Democratic · West Virginia
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msnbc.com

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Senator Manchin expresses openness to changing the Senate's filibuster rules while maintaining some form of the filibuster.

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