Flashback: Schumer slammed Republicans for attempting to ‘change the rules’ on the filibuster in 2003
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is leading an effort in the Senate to peel back the filibuster after fiercely defending the 60-vote rule as a way to bring "balance" to the upper chamber.
"The bottom line is this. We are defending the Constitution, we are saying there should be some balance," Schumer, D-N.Y., said in a 2003 floor speech. "President Bush didn’t win by a landslide. This Senate is not 62 to 38, or 70 to 30. This country is narrowly divided, and that means when laws are made they move to the middle."
Schumer said the minority party's role in filibustering is nothing new, but "what’s new is the view on the other side that if they don’t get their whole way they want to change the rules."
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