Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100515:01:36:00
But now for the first time in our country's history, everything takes 60 votes to pass. everything. everything takes a supermajority of 60 votes. it is outrageous. it is unpress tented. but the time it took to explain that and to show our filibuster graph means that even though this 60 votes on everything situation is unprecedented and a small democratic disaster, a huge change in our constitutional system in government that no one debated, that none of us signed up for, that is strangling our ability as a nation to deal with the problems that face us as a nation, even though the 60 votes on a...