But there are three main points I want to make before I sort of summarize where I think we are. First of all, as my colleagues have eloquently noted, We have exhausted virtually every other alternative to this vote to overrule the parliamentarian and establish a new precedent. which is an alternative to a formal rule change which takes 67 votes. But we know our colleagues will never vote for that, leaving us no alternative but to invoke what is sometimes called the nuclear option. (01:05–01:15)
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