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Biden Supports Changes To Filibuster, Returning It To 'What It Used To Be'

The president, during an interview with ABC News, called to change the way the controversial Senate filibuster functions.
President Biden stops briefly to talk to the press as he walks toward Marine One on March 16.

President Biden on Tuesday told ABC News he supports reforming the filibuster, calling on the chamber to readapt its old standard of requiring dissenting members to verbally speak on the floor to delay action on a bill.

"I don't think that you have George Stephanopoulos. "You had to stand up and command the floor, you had to keep talking."

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