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“Over time there have been 160-some carve-outs to the filibuster.”
Amy Klobuchar U.S. Senator, D-Minn.. an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press". Claim dated 5 Dec 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly True

What PolitiFact found

Klobuchar cited independent research that documents roughly that many exceptions, but many are relatively narrow, and most were done in a way that wouldn't work for the voting rights legislation she wants a carve-out for

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In short

Amy Klobuchar (U.S. Senator, D-Minn.) made this claim around 5 December 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 9 December 2021, 4 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.

Amy Klobuchar has 13 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 8 misleading or mixed and 4 true.

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