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Washington and promised working people things like getting rid of unfair trade deals and buy america policies, et cetera, we need to hold him accountable to those words and when he's going to do things that harm the working people of my state we resist with every ounce of our energy. >> what does that mean? one of the things that happened -- so right now this hill article today was interesting to me because i think the aca fight has taken front and center because they moved on that first. they'll move that through the budget. funny we're passing budgets again, we haven't done that for a while....

To do things that harm the working people of my state we resist with every ounce of our energy. >> what does that mean? one of the things that happened -- so right now this hill article today was interesting to me because i think the aca fight has taken front and center because they moved on that first. they'll move that through the budget. funny we're passing budgets again, we haven't done that for a while. but they're going to move that through reconciliation. it will mean they don't need to clear the filibuster threshold of 60. what can you practically as a senator? can you slow things down...

Majority with democrats voting yes and allowing republicans to do what was politically right for them and vote no. that didn't happen because ted cruise demanded it was a 60-vote filibuster threshold. what happened was republicans had to find five votes. 55 democrats and noded to find at least with republicans to get that 60-throat threshold. what you saw for the last hour was scrambling around and figuring out where the votes are. we don't know how many if any democrats voted no, but we know the way this played out was republicans voted yes, including mitch mcconnell to the top two republican...

The rules of the senate has been floating around there. what we're hearing now is that reid is working with mcconnell to make slight changes and that they're working together, that it is a -- at least now -- a bipartisan effort to try to fast track some efforts in the senate and not make sweeping changes that we heard of originally. if the senate truly started and it has no rules, 51 is all that's necessary, but 60 is the filibuster threshold. that's the vote that you have to get to currently is 60 votes. 51 is, of course, the simple majority. and that's to get a bill to the floor, they're try...

Limiting it to 2/3 to 3/5. so from 67 possibly -- >> they reduced it. they reduced the filibuster threshold because it was being abused. >> right. >> there was a victory there based on the, quote, unquote, constitutional option going right up to the precipice and the senate procedurally having succeeded in having these rules amended procedurally backed away and said, no, this is not a procedural question. >> the point is what underlies all of this discussion of rules is there is no other logic but majority logic at the end of the day there can be nothing other than majority logic that ultimate...