In his speech, Cuomo points out that more people voted for Democratic Senators than Republican ones. This is possible because the Senate actaully represents the states in Congress. That's why Montana, with a population of 902,194 (Wikipedia) has the Same number of senators as New York, with a population of 19,190,115 (Wikipedia).
Cuomo, in the Democratic Party's weekly radio address, said Senate Republicans "are threatening to claim ownership of the Supreme Court and other federal courts, hoping to achieve political results on subjects like abortion, stem cells, the environment and civil rights that they cannot get from the proper political bodies."
"How will they do this? By destroying the so-called filibuster, a vital part of the 200-year-old system of checks and balances in the Senate," Cuomo said.
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