Dem Rep. Slotkin Calls for Abolishing Filibuster

Representative Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), who is running to replace retiring Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), said Monday on MSNBC’s “The Last Word” that the Senate’s filibuster rule “needs to go.”

Anchor Lawrence O’Donnell said, “Let’s go to that issue right there, the so-called filibuster rule. I know that members of the House will be looking over at the Senate, complaining about the Senate rules that always seem to get in the way of the legislation that the House could pass. Would you vote in the Senate to get rid of that current 60-vote filibuster rule?”

Slotkin said, “Yes, I think the filibuster, as it is now being used, needs to go.”