standing between getting voting right legislation passed and not getting past is the filibuster i support making an exception on voting rights of the filibuster majority leader chuck schumer said the senate would quote consider changes to any rules which prevent us from debating and reaching final conclusion on important legislation. senator, you have said in the past you'd be open to eliminating that, but because the votes that do that don't exist you would like to see bipartisan buy into reforming the rules. what's your position now >> might, i have been in the senate for 15 years of what i would like to see is a return to the senate was operating when i first came to the united states senate and that is allow issues to come to the floor of the senate so we can debate. that would be the greatest debating institution in the world. we need to be able to debate issues, but we also need to make sure that the minority have an opportunity to offer amendments and get votes on their amendments and at the end of the day we should be voting up or