Biden in 2005 said nixing the filibuster ‘upsets the constitutional design’ and would ‘eviscerate the Senate’

Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., spent over an hour on the Senate floor Wednesday night reading a 2005 speech from President Biden verbatim where Biden said eliminating the filibuster would “eviscerate the Senate.” 

Biden, then a Delaware senator, said at the time it was “one of the most important speeches for historical purposes that I will have given in the 32 years since I have been in the Senate.”

He said that ending the 60-vote hurdle would turn the Senate “into the House of Representatives.”

The Senate at that time was also split 50-50. George W. Bush was in office, meaning a Republican had…