Senator Joe Manchin

You don't make it.

And what happened?

He had to go to Lordstown, Ohio to get a job at the auto factory, and we lost it, and I was done.

You lost your Skymaster, yeah.

I don't recommend anybody getting caught in a 50-50 Senate in the United States because the United States Senate is supposed to be the...

most deliberate body in the world.

And the reason it's deliberate, because you have to have a 60-vote threshold of a cloture to get on a bill.

And with that, that was intended from our founding fathers, is that the House is going to be simple majority, 218 out of 435.

Don't even talk to the other side.

You don't have to.

Just shove it through.

And George Washington said, you know, it's going to be like a hot cup of tea and it goes over to the Senate, should cool itself off so we can drink it.

Well, that's the whole premise.

And people keep saying, get rid of the filibuster.

That's the holy grail to democracy as we know it, because without it, we wouldn't be the country we are now.

It forced us to sit down in one of the bodies to calm things down and talk to our friends over in the House and say, guys, this is how it's got to be.

We've got to moderate this some.

And that's what I'd always known from Bob Byrd, Senator Robert C. Byrd, our senator forever, 50 years plus in West Virginia.

When I became governor, I think he kind of knew in his mind that I would probably run for the Senate.

And he was getting to the end of his career, or his age was creeping up on him pretty hard.