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John Thune: “The talking filibuster hasn't been used in something like…”

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

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Thune Joins Sean Hannity on Fox News

Published | Video Starts at 00:32

Well, I think probably the best path to success is through budget reconciliation. And we can't do everything in budget reconciliation, but we can do parts of it. The one thing about The talking filibuster hasn't been used in something like 100 years. people point to the Civil Rights act of 1964 that actually was done under regular order. They invoke cloture, passed it that way. (00:32–00:43)

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Asserts that the talking filibuster has not been utilized in approximately a century.

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