Chuck Schumer: We’d like to create Senate rules that can’t be changed by a 2/3 Majority

Glenn Beck has obtained audio from a closed door meeting with Chuck Schumer saying the following:

Look this is something that people have looked at over in the past. So you can’t just rush it out. You have to really study it carefully. And that’s what the hearings – I’m chair of the rules committee and we have jurisdiction over this – is intended to do. There have been some very interesting papers written that say that the constitutional right, for instance, of the senate to make it’s own rules superceeds the two thirds, that you can’t change the rules, but only when congress writes new rules at the beginning of each congress, every two year period when we reorganize ourselves. Um, that’s something we want to explore.

You can hear it for yourself at 1:45:


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