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Mike Johnson: “You got to have 60 votes in the Senate. That's the problem…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Speaker Johnson Joins Sunday Night in America with Trey Gowdy

Published | Video Starts at 05:25

That's what the. That's what we want. Republicans in the House and the Senate, and we need some Democrats in the Senate to do the right thing. You got to have 60 votes in the Senate. That's the problem. We've only got 53 Republicans there. so we need a handful of them to do the right thing. All right, speaker, quickly, before I let you go. You're not only a man of faith, you're a man of hope. (05:25–05:30)

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Asserts that there are 53 Republicans in the Senate, requiring 60 votes to pass measures.

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