Congressman Andy Biggs

It's a speaking filibuster.

It's always been there.

But now they don't have to go speak.

They just have to say, well, we're not going to vote to to close up filibuster.

So they can stay in their office either with a blue slip or the cloture and kill it.

And if you get rid of it and get it down to 51 votes to close down the filibuster, then if you want to stop the majority's plan, you have to rise up off your behind, get out of your office and go down and speak on the floor and actually put some physical strength in there.

And you know what happens?

If you're convincing enough, then the bill gets changed.

If not, then you can get your agenda through.

And quite frankly, this is why we have $38 trillion in national debt.

It's why we have a failure to basically launch this agenda of President Trump.

It's because of those rules.

And

And this notion that, oh, we're doing this to save the institution.

I get it.

They say that we're institutionalists.

You're not saving the institution.

You are creating and fomenting – not creating, but you are fomenting the uniparty, the control over Washington, D.C.

And that's why lobbyists, bureaucrats, the media, they all are fine with keeping it exactly the way it is because –

Yeah, look, they breathe a different air than the rest of the world breathes.