[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 10639]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         REPUBLICAN FILIBUSTERS

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I appreciate the Republican leader for 
taking credit for passage of bills they filibustered. He led the 
filibusters on these the last 4 years. It is unfortunate, but any one 
of those, with rare exception, would have been passed had we not had 
filibusters by the Republicans--the SGRs, and we could go through the 
whole list.
  But I appreciate we are doing some things that are important because 
we are not filibustering. Remember, every one that we tried to do was 
stopped dead in its tracks and, as a result of that, we had to file 
hundreds of motions to invoke cloture. So my friend the Republican 
leader should be very happy we are not doing the same thing to him that 
was done to us.

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