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John Thune: “The Save America act unites a bunch of common sense…”

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

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Thune: The SAVE America Act Delivers Commonsense Protections for Women's Sports & America's Children

Published | Video Starts at 00:07

Mr. President, I said at the beginning of this debate that I was going to use the word common sense a lot. And that's because The Save America act unites a bunch of common sense policies, the kind of things that are just intuitively obvious, or at least they should be, and should be getting 80 to 90 votes or more here in the Senate. I've talked at length this week about common sense election policies, like showing a photo ID at the polls and demonstrating that you're an American citizen. (00:07–00:24)

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Asserts that the Save America act contains policies that should receive broad bipartisan support.

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