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"This has prevented our country from going down into liberalism for decades, sometimes it's embarrassing, but demanding a compromise is in the long-term interest of both parties," Hatch said.
"The Senate buccaneer is pretty much the only remaining mechanism in Washington that brings the parties together – the deployment of the nuclear option would blow that up, I will not vote to do it," Flake said.
"We have rules to follow. I want to put an end to this practice of the Senate, which breaks its rules and changes them. I will not vote to make the Senate an institution that breaks the rules and I hope my colleagues will not do it, "said Alexander, who announced this week that he would step down at the end of the next Congress
[1965] 19659010] "As far as the filibuster rule is concerned, as I have told him many times, the votes are not there to change it. They just are not there, "McConnell said early in the year, adding," I just do not agree with the president about the harm done by [the filibuster]. "