So these are sort of basic issues that Republicans, Democrats, Independents, all across the country want. You'd support getting rid of the filibuster for this? Absolutely. I mean, The filibuster was always supposed to just be used to stop debate after we had an opportunity to debate, not to stop bills. So it's now it's been abused to try to stop bills. A year ago, we had to change the rules on nominations because the Democrats were blocking those. (03:53–03:59)
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