Negotiations on spending and infrastructure. do you believe changes of the fill i m hopeful it will happen. for six, eight, maybe even nine months now i have been talking about this so-called carveout. what i have said, that the term reconciliation that we apply to budget issues, you know, that the they get around the filibuster is a much more apt term to be applied to constitutional issues like voting. so reconciliation is good for the budget. and i think it s also very good for constitutional issues as well. i m pleased to hear the president say what he did say. i haver in called for eliminating the filibuster altogether. i would like to see it eliminated, but i ve never called for it. ....