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baba agar is on the line with us the president and c_e_o_ of common cause and
a bob welcome back to the program
military wikia com great to have you with us the
yuan e we have been on this program campaigning very vigorously shall we say
for some weeks for jeff merck listen them in jakarta is done the program
several times budget markley tom udall
that was before
has done program mention that
and it looks like a rereading
still lay down with temporal
harry wu's that cut the legs out of
uh...
all of the progressive who wanted filibuster reform
uh... i hope that uh... senator harkin and senator mark leon
uh... another of the newer spent eters really whatever
form senate rules
will really take a hard look at the uh... i think that i had a deep
leadership it needs reform
and i'm hoping that some of those senators will join our federal offices
because we believe that
the filibusters actually unconstitutional the founding fathers
were pretty smartly
puts seven instances in the competition for a sober majority
but they were so scared to death that
democracy would involve into a deeper majority vote on every issue and
uh... we're if we're gonna have to heat is moving forward
my friend congressman tom harkin says that uh...
white house isn't going to get any of their priorities if they have to live
under the
that filibuster rules that harry reid has become too i think he's really
capitulated uh...
to the republicans and many respected
and as we get to a heart issue like the gun issue or the physical cliff issues
you're going to be a filibuster after filibuster just as we call in the past
and you're going to be
you know one janitors ending up in the email or making a telephone call
threatening a filibuster and
uh... stopping progress
yeah i think i mentioned on your television show couple week ago that
most everybody likes medicare it only passed by fifty five voted in nineteen
fifty five
so good things get dumped if you have to have more than a majority vote
so it is not a good day for the fan it's not a good day for reformers
is not a good day for fixing the rules of the planet
uh... but it is a good day care
kind of bind together and
uh... pick up the pieces and go forward and i hope our losses which is now the
the only game in town for figuring the filibuster perceived
and that's a common cause that our people can learn learn more about that
yet it got a comment about that organi confined uh... a lot of information
including
the losses that we filed it's probably one of the best historical documents on
the history of the fifth
filibuster
uh... what do you stay too
like some of the senate staffers uh...
i'm assuming associate was senator redone all the
quoted in various media
just democratic centrists out staffers
who say things like well you know if a
if the filibuster wasn't there the republicans would have already privatize
social security they would've already overturn roe v_ wade that you know a lot
of progressive things ever what happened with
course baloney
uh... filibuster was used more often
who is more often to protect lynching walls and segregation that was human
rights civil rights or any of the good stuff in
in a while the democrats uh... have occasionally been in the minority
uh... when they are in the minority at uh...
hard for them to hold together and really used the filibuster as abuses of
players at the
conservative republicans have been using the filibuster
filibuster ought not to be a tool for obstruction
then it should be a place where full debate takes place in
until this very day
uh... the filibuster is used to block debate two-block deliberation
rather than to extend the date and opened the uh...
opportunity
why shouldn't creditors go on the floor with legislation
debated fully
have the minority and the majority whether democrats or republicans
offer amendments chambers amendment
and then have a final patronage by majority rule
go over with the hollywood into contrada committed when i served in congress my
best friends where republicans
and those republicans back in the old days working with the democrats would
fight very hard for their positions
they'd have a bill in the house dependability senate and then they go to
conference committee
and they go she ate out an energy bill or resource recovery legislation or the
older americans actor can start
is the filibuster has been used as a political told by the republicans
those discussions of dates and
collaborations uncompromising simply don't take place
and and
most to those who suggests
you know well you think this bad now just wait until the republicans run the
site you're really going to be happy that we kept the filibuster by british
is the first things republicans would do if they have the house the senate and
the white house with president ruby ellen and majority leader
maternal mcconnell season on things that you're you're gonna you know for
senators to support
absolutely
if uh... romney had won the election and the republicans had taken over the
planet
they'd be all over changing the rules of of the planet uh... because simply and
ultra-conservative radical way
two-block
all
public policy in liberia week even
well remember
couple weeks ago
harry reid in an interview he's gonna cave on the top left and he's gonna cave
run
uh... weapon bullet clipped and uh...
he'd he come from uh...
a fairly competitive region the country
he's been conservative
most of his that career
and uh... i think uh...
he's been vaccinated by the bobby byrd brought del change planet effective
three hundred years so far
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