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Is it your sense that your caucus, the Democrats in the Senate, are willing to look at reigning

in the filibuster through a rules change, doing something else to break this super-majority

stranglehold?

This is a dysfunctional set of rules.

It wasn't all that dysfunctional in the 50s and 60s on civil rights, but they broke

that.

Finally, progressives did and moved the country forward.

We haven't been able to with nearly the regularity that we'd like to, and we're the only

Democratic country in the world, I think, that has this super-majority requirement to

change the status quo, and the status quo always protects the most affluent and the most

privileged, and that's why it's so important to change these rules, so ultimately a majority

actually would rule in this country.

You have proposed making what happens in the Senate more like what we imagine when we

think of the filibuster.

We want a system that actually enables the Senate to debate and to tackle the problems

America faces.

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