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John Thune: “653 votes cast so far this year, which dwarfs any year going…”

Featuring: John Thune, Republican | Senate Majority Leader, South Dakota

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Thune on Senate Republicans' Record-Breaking Year

Published | Video Starts at 00:41

Obviously this is pretty small, difficult to see perhaps, unless you're standing right over it. But if you look at the red line here, that's this year. So653 653 votes cast so far this year, which dwarfs any year going back to 1989. which is what we had data going back to. We have since researched farther back. Turns out there was one year, 1976. We went back eight decades. (00:41–00:52)

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Asserts that the Senate cast 653 votes in 2025, more than any year since 1989.

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