Adam Schiff: “Republicans in the Senate are hard at work on an…”

“But that's not what I'm here to talk about this evening. I'm here at this hour or this morning, because right here, right now, in the dead of night, Republicans in the Senate are hard at work on an unprecedented and previously unimaginable effort to abandon their own standards, their own precedent, their previous very public statements, the very rules of this body to make our air less clean. To do so is complicated. It requires a lot of twisted parliamentary maneuvers. Why? Because to make the air Dirtier requires 60 votes, and they don't have 60 votes.” (00:42–01:10)

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