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Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) once again called for the end of the filibuster Sunday, this time implying that it would be the solution to so many policy problems,
including the recent dispute over abortions in Texas.
Speaking to CNN
State Of The Union host Dana Bash,
Klobuchar hammered the Texas "heartbeat" law, which bans most abortions at around six weeks and empowers private parties to sue those who "
aid and abet" illegal abortion procedures, and suggested that the solution to stopping the law and similar laws was to enshrine
Roe v Wade at the congressional level.
Klobuchar
said:
"My solution to this — which is my solution for voting rights and so many other things, including climate change, where one side of the country is in flames and the other side of the country is flooded with people dying submerged in their cars — I believe we should abolish the filibuster."
She derided the filibuster, which allows for the Senate to require 60 votes to pass bills, as an "archaic rule" that prevents them from "taking action" on important issues. Notably, Klobuchar is one of a
number of Senate Democrats who have embraced making changes to the filibuster or outright eliminating it.
"The challenges that are facing our country right now — now and over the next years — we just will get nowhere if we keep this filibuster in place."
Comment: The September interview with Laura Ingraham: