User Clip: Sen. Joe Biden on filibuster in 2005

Everyone in this chamber knows that if the majority chooses to end the filibuster — if they choose to change the rules and put an end to democratic debate — then the fighting and the bitterness and the gridlock will only get worse. I urge my Republican colleagues not to go through with changing these rules….I sense that talk of the ‘nuclear option’ is more about power than about fairness. I believe my colleagues propose this rules change because they believe they can get away with it rather than because they know it’s good for our democracy close