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Jasmine Crockett: “In the Senate, they have the filibuster, which means that…”

Featuring: Jasmine Crockett, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 30

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I'm heading back to DC to vote NO on the shutdown sham deal

Published | Video Starts at 10:01

Tiffany wants to know what can we do at this point? Is the House gonna vote the same as the city? Okay, so a couple of things that I need to clarify for Tiffany. In the Senate, they have the filibuster, which means that they have to get a total of 60 votes. We saw the eight Democrats made sure that they could get over the filibuster. In the House, it's a simple majority. So we don't run the House. (10:01–10:06)

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Asserts that the Senate requires 60 votes to overcome a filibuster.

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