You could have withheld your vote in order to gain with voting rights to, to argue that, that if you wanted, if you wanted my vote on this, we needed to find a path to get voting rights passed. All the Democrats were on it, but we had two Democrats who are no longer in office who were not willing to make any adjustment to the filibuster. We weren't even trying to get rid of the filibuster, just make an adjustment so that we could get this done. And the process was probably mansion, mansion and cinema. (40:47–40:59)
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Asserts that two former Democratic Senators were unwilling to adjust the filibuster.
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