By Alfred Lubrano and Julia Terruso, The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS)

Sen. John Fetterman, D.-Pa., said he’d back a Republican plan to override the Senate filibuster if it meant passing a bill to reopen the government .

In an interview with The Inquirer Tuesday, Fetterman admonished fellow Democrats who balk at the notion of using the so-called “nuclear option” to end the filibuster : “When I ran for Senate, everyone including myself said we’ve got to get rid of the filibuster. I don’t want to see any Democrats clutching their pearls about it now.

“If we’d had our way, the filibuster wouldn’t have been around for years.”

A traditional staple of the Senate that’s long been debated, the filibuster requires 60 votes to pass most legislation in the Senate .

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