
Manchin rails against eliminating filibuster, says he's not 'going to be part of blowing up this Senate'
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Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., on Sunday pushed back against progressive Democrats who call him a "roadblock" to their liberal proposals, emphasizing he is "not going to be part of blowing up this Senate."
"I am not going to be part of blowing up this Senate of ours or basically this democracy of ours or the republic that we have," Manchin said, referring to the Democratic push to eliminate the filibuster. "If we have a 51-vote threshold in the Senate, the same as the House--the House wasn't designed to be partisan." "The House was designed to be hot as a fire cracker. We were designed to cool it off, and that's the Founding Fathers. It was a brilliant strategy they looked at, so why can't we try to make this work?" Manchin continued.More Related News