What would you say to people watching this process who want to know why the Senate has a majority of Republicans and they can't pass it. Right. Well, that's obviously that would be the rules of the Senate, which means it requires 60. That's the super majority requirement that we have in the Senate to pass most consequential legislation. The exception to that, of course, is budget reconciliation, which we used last summer to pass the Working Families Tax Cuts Act. (02:20–02:28)
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