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Bob Casey Jr.: “Legislation that is supported by 70 or 80% of the country is…”

Featuring: Bob Casey Jr., Democratic | Former U.S. Senate, Pennsylvania

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Former senator Bob Casey on Congress, midterms and why voters are frustrated with Washington

Published | Video Starts at 07:52

Now you can sidetrack that or get around that by the so called reconciliation process, but it doesn't, I think the system doesn't make a lot of sense today where Legislation that is supported by 70 or 80% of the country is thwarted because of this [filibuster] rule. So I think there's a way to design a rule that the minority in the Senate, Democrat or Republican depending on when it is, can still have a long time to make their case against legislation where they want to stop it. (07:52)

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Asserts that popular legislation is blocked due to the filibuster rule.

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