How Biden swung for filibuster reform — and missed with Manchin and Sinema

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After hearing his Senate predecessor’s name invoked repeatedly over the past few months, Joe Manchin lobbed a pointed question at Joe Biden behind closed doors on Thursday: Did the late Robert Byrd ever break Senate rules to change them?

The president had a simple answer for Manchin: “We are in different times now,” according to multiple people with knowledge of the meeting.

During a private visit with Democratic senators designed to sell them on changing the rules to pass a voting

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