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John Thune: “We called up the House passed version and typically to get a…”

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

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Thune Joins The Hugh Hewitt Show

Published | Video Starts at 01:09

Is there any idea of how long they'll put up with this? Is there any way they can stop it? Democrats, I mean, not really. I mean, what we did, We called up the House passed version and typically to get a bill up on the floor and the Senate takes procedural, a what we call culture on the motion to proceed, which is a 60 vote threshold in the Senate because this came over in the form of a message from the House. It was at 51, so we were able to get on it. And then I filled the amendment tree which prevents the Democrats from getting, you know, some of the amendment votes on some of the crazy ideas they have. (01:09–01:27)

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Asserts that a House-passed bill was brought to the Senate floor with a 51-vote threshold due to procedural rules.

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