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Nays. The ayes and nays are requested. Those favoring a vote by the ayes and nays shall rise. A sufficient number risen, the ayes and nays are ordered. Pursuant to clause 3 of rule 20, the chair directs the clerk to conduct the vote by a call of the roll. The clerk will call the roll alphabetically by surname. The house will be in order. The clerk may call the roll. Adams . Yes. Aye. Aderholt . No. Nay. Aguilar . Aye. Yea. Alford . No. Nay. Allen . No. Nay. Allred . Aye. Yea. Emmaday . No. Nay. Armstrong . No. No. Arrington . No. Nay. O ochenclaus . Yes. Yea. Babbin . No. Nay. Bacon . No. Nay....

All eyes again are on the filibuster. you say the question to reform the filibuster boils down to do we want a functional or dysfunctional government? tell us why, adam. >> that's right. well, you know, the question we're facing right now is something that the framers actually predicted when they created the senate. and, you know, one of the big myths about the filibuster is that it's this foundational feature of the senate. that's just simply not true. the framers created a senate that was a majority rule body. this myth that there would be wild swings back and forth is not something that the...

Of the senate. that jimmy stewart movie did more to enshrine the filibuster as part of the senate than is really merited. you know, the founders did not want the filibuster to exist. they were extremely clear that the senate should be a majority rule body. the senate was a majority rule body for more than 200 years of its existence. so it is largely myths coming to existence to serve narrow political interests. so democrats should be fully comfortable with the idea of reform because there's a long bipartisan tradition of reform with both democrats and republicans. they should get rid of this m...