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Cynthia Lummis: “We failed in our first cloture vote, which was a huge…”

Featuring: Cynthia Lummis, Republican | U.S. Senate Wyoming

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We thought that would be a lighter lift. And then doing market structure later, what we found out was that it was not a light lift. We failed in our first cloture vote, which was a huge surprise because that bill came out of the Senate Banking Committee with bipartisan support. And just a week before the cloture vote, the Democrats said, we're not with you anymore. So we had the failed cloture vote. (01:53–02:08)

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Asserts that the first cloture vote on the Genius Act failed despite bipartisan support.

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