Republicans are admitting that they don't have the votes to pass these California resolutions under the Senate rules that the parliamentarian says apply in this case. So they'll overrule the parliamentarian. Why not throw out the rule book altogether? By voting to go nuclear on the CRA, they're ignoring the law. Not just Senate rules, but the text of the law itself. By voting to overrule the parliamentarian, they're saying that the rules are whatever Republicans say they are, not what the parliamentarian has determined. (10:14–10:24)
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Asserts that Republicans are disregarding both Senate rules and the law by voting to go nuclear on the CRA.
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