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Kirsten Gillibrand: “There's pretty much a 51 vote threshold now for everything.”

Featuring: Kirsten Gillibrand, Democratic | U.S. Senate New York

Podcast Interview with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand on Her Presidential Campaign and Policy Proposals

Published January 22, 2019 | Video Starts at 21:53

The filibuster is mostly gone now. So it barely exists. No, I think. Well, yeah, that's why I'm sort of. Thinking like it barely exists. It barely exists. There's pretty much a 51 vote threshold now for everything. Right. The only part we had left in place was for Supreme Court justices, and Mitch just took that away. So I think it's useful to bring people together. (21:53–21:57)

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