Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20121201:13:20:00
Will be filibustered. you said that the way that this works is only if the minority exercises restraint. do you think that restraint has been lost? >> it seems to have eroded. i do want to correct something that you said earlier about the senate adopting its rules. the senate does not adopt its rules. it's continuous. the senate does not need to and in fact does not adopt its rules every year. the senate has litigated whether it is a continuing body and they have decided it is, in fact, a continuing body. you said medicare was able to pass with less than 60 votes. the seb nate has functioned f...