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Colin Allred: “We're packing everything we can into budget bills because…”

Featuring: Colin Allred, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Texas

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Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview

Published | Video Starts at 13:08

And to me, it's made the Senate no longer a functioning body to where we are producing much less legislation than we historically have. We're packing everything we can into budget bills because those are subject to only a 50 vote threshold. And there are these kind of mega bills that I think should be in many cases debated and seen separately and independently. (13:08–13:15)

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Asserts that legislation is being packed into budget bills due to their 50-vote threshold.

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