Adam Schiff: “Tonight is a turning point, a moment in which the majority…”

“But that was then. But hide or not, the blame will lay squarely on my Republican colleagues for the impact of what is done here tonight. Because Tonight is a turning point, a moment in which the majority gave up yet another guardrail where they chose to go nuclear, to violate the filibuster, to overturn the parliamentarian in order to gratify the wishes of Big Oil over the need of our constituents for cleaner air. The GOP wasn't always this way. Republican administrations didn't always demonstrate such hostility to the environment. At a different moment in our history, there was a very different kind of Republican Party.” (01:57–02:17)

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