Sen. Cotton: If You Eliminate the Filibuster You Will Get Things Like GND and Packing the Supreme Court

‘We want to have open and fair debate and we want to compromise’

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COTTON: "Senator Manchin has been very clear he will not vote to change the rules to reduce the threshold from 60 votes to something lower to end debate and have the final vote. That’s what the Senate traditions have been going back 40 years. Before that it was more than that. There was a time, going back 200 years when it required all the senators to agree to end debate. That is the tradition of the Senate. That's in the tradition that our founders wanted the Senate to play to make sure that any major changes to the laws of our country were considered and careful and deliberate. The Senate has always played that role and it should continue to play that role. Otherwise you will get things like the Green New Deal and amnesty for illegal aliens and packing the Supreme Court."

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