Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130307:16:44:00
Minority of their rights here in the senate, and back some years ago, there was going to be -- we were going to eliminate -- when republicans this side of the aisle was in the majority, we were going to eliminate the ability to call for 60 votes for judges. we had confirmation of judges. we were able to put that aside. there was another effort just at the beginning of this senate to do away with 60 votes and back down to 51, which in my view would have destroyed the senate. a lot of us worked -- a group of us worked very hard for a long time to come up with compromises that would allow the sen...