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Is a central part in the senate, the 60-vote super majority, but it would make the filibuster into something that the minority had to put some effort into using. you have to want it. now, so i want to be clear on merkleys proposal. if it passed, the minority could still filibuster anything they wanted. they couldnt subject almost everything to the same 60-society challenge we have now. all they would have to do is talk. tell the american people why. and they probably wouldnt even have to do that...

60-vote challenge we have now. all they would have to do is talk. tell the american people why. and they probably wouldnt even have to do that that much, because the majority cant just let them talk all the time, they have to let them get stuff done. but even that modest reform is too much for many senators. "the huffington post" reports that a bipartisan group of lawmakers led by john mccain and levin are proposing a counter proposal that does even less. it would eliminate some redundant opport...

Into something that the minority had to put some effort into using. you have to want it. now, so i want to be clear on merkleys proposal. if it passed, the minority could still filibuster anything they wanted. they couldnt subject almost everything to the same 60-vote challenge we have now. all they would have to do is talk. tell the american people why. and they probably wouldnt even have to do that that much, because the majority cant just let them talk all the time, they have to let them get ...

And they probably wouldnt even have to do that that much, because the majority cant just let them talk all the time, they have to let them get stuff done. but even that modest reform is too much for many senators. "the huffington post" reports that a bipartisan group of lawmakers led by herman cain and levin are proposing a counter proposal that does even less. it would eliminate some redundant opportunities to filibuster. give quicker consideration to some nominations, as long as no other senat...

Respectable majority." but in recent years, the senate has been remade into a super majority constitution. you need 60 votes to get almost anything done. between 2009 and 2010, we had more filibusters than we had in the 50s, 60s, and 70s combined. and theyre not filibusters like we think of them, where the senators go to the floor and debate an issue until they keel over from exhaustion. theyre just obstruction. if you watch a filibuster today, it doesnt look like anything. its the blue screen o...

You need 60 votes to get almost anything done. between 2009 and 2010, we had more filibusters than we had in the 50s, 60s, and 70s combined. and theyre not filibusters like we think of them, where the senators go to the floor and debate an issue until they keel over from exhaustion. theyre just obstruction. if you watch a filibuster today, it doesnt look like anything. its the blue screen on c-span, the one with the classical music playing over it. you dont tune in to here an intense minority de...

Vote, that becomes the ruling. so he can either make a ruling himself and then we sustain or overturn it or he can turn the ruling back to the body, which is what was done in 1975. >> understood. steve is going to give us our last question today. >> sort of a skeptical one. even people appreciate the idea of what youre doing. i think the point is you get the talking filibuster. it will be a novelty at first. some people on c span 2 would get a kick out of watching it, but senate floor time is so...

Republicans have several tools. right now we have very well leverage in the debate over the fiscal cliff because that stuff happens automatically but the idea of a debt ceiling increase, theyve told obama if you want a trillion dollars in higher debt and he needs that eight times in the next decade, you have to cut spending a trillion dollars. >> here, ill ask you again. 0 im a republican congressman and i signed your tax pledge to not raise taxes. if someone says heres a bill that says if you s...

Able to videotape the negotiations, the kind of thing were learning now about how obama said i have no interesting in cutting spending, hes been lying for two months about his negotiationing position in the room. if people knew that, there would be serious unhappiness in his lack of seriousness with cutting spending. if the negotiations were here out are on c-span, the president loses, if we have secret meetings that he gets to explain what happened, he loseses because the establishment press bu...