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Jasmine Crockett: “The Senate Democrats failed to fully use the tool that they…”

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

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Texas Representative Discusses Education Department Closure and Political Challenges

Published | Video Starts at 06:44

When it comes to the Senate, they have a few more tools that we don't. We just saw when it came down to the continuing resolution that The Senate Democrats failed to fully use the tool that they had available to them with the culture vote. And basically that just means that the threshold is raised to 60 votes, which right now, when it comes to the Republicans in The Senate, they only have 53. (06:44–06:50)

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Asserts that Senate Democrats did not fully utilize the cloture vote tool.

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