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That he always tried to protect. in a chairman's meeting, the first in 1993 during the clinton presidency, chairman bird, announced to all of us that he personally would not allow the clinton health care bill to be done in reconciliation. so we instantly gave up. the majority leader didn't think let me talk him into this. everyone instantly gave up on reconciliation on that. then you cut to obamacare, getting to the united states senate. robert bird goes along with the idea that you can split it, and passed some of it through reconciliation. some of it over the 60 vote threshold. that is somet...

Joe manchin gets all seven of those republicans to support john lewis voting rights bill, he will not have the 60 votes necessary to pass that bill. senator manchin occupies a seat that was held by robert bird for 51 years, the longest serving senator in history. senator manchin often mentions his devotion to robert perez legacy as the senate's leading parliamentary expert. robert bird was a master of senate rules but he was not religiously devoted to that robert or did not believe that senate rules are unchangeable. our first guest tonight, shapiro served on robert birds senate staff and in a...

Standing ovation. it was hypocrisy to the max. what robert bird did, was to say, shouting as best he could, shame, shame. he was aiming that at mitch mcconnell. he knew it meant to mcconnell was doing. that was a violation of what he believed was the integrity, and the norms, and decency of the senate. he wouldn't be standing for this. i am 100% convinced. i am 1 00i can tell you in the 1990s, that senator bird and senator mcconnell had a perfectly cordial relationship at all times. one senator mcconnell was then considered one of the regional republicans in the senate. iraq, there's an import...

Senate and joe mentions reference for the rules of the senate is inherited from robert bird and the three people who will be discussing robert birds view of the rules actually know maybe more about that even than joe manchin does in-house robert prude him self was changed rules in the senate when he felt it was necessary and it wasn't working so that's how we're gonna begin tonight. >> it's one thing to say that you review or the rules of the senate and you want to follow in the footsteps of somebody like robert bird and so therefore you want change the filibuster when one of the things that r...

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