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Was. so it was on the floor after 60 days. after 54 days, humphrey and dirksen work out a compromise that met some of their fears and their concerns and offered it down as a substitute amendment amend they were to be able get cloture shortly thereafter by more than 70 votes. but now the bipartisanship and the parties have changed. you had liberal democrat, conservative democrats, liberal and conservative republicans in those days. now it's republicans versus democrats. it's just the two teams and you don't -- there's very little bipartisanship that you used to see. the place has changed partia...

The debt crisis negotiations? >> i think it's important to understand that a process has to be gone through here. there has to be, i know this sounds crazy in many ways, but deadlock before you can achieve the breakthrough. in other words, both sides have to see that their favored proposal cannot succeed before you get to a final agreement. we're coming much closer to that. speaker boehner's plan may or may not pass the house, i assume it will, but it will fail in the senate. senator reid has a plan here, but i think it's likely that at this moment that won't get cloture, won't get 60 votes --...