And you know how to do that. We need to blow up the filibuster. So it's time we passed all of his common sense ideas with a simple majority vote. Now the filibuster. The filibuster was never supposed to use to stop a bill. It was actually never supposed to use to stop a nomination. It was supposed to be used to allow a debate and then a simple majority voted. 51 votes. (08:46–08:50)
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