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Mike Lee: “Our Democrat colleagues were able to keep the Department of…”

Featuring: Mike Lee, Republican | U.S. Senate from Utah

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Mike Lee Delivers Emphatic Defense Of The SAVE America Act In Senate Floor Speech

Published | Video Starts at 43:03

Its slavish devotion to the truncated, predictable light duty legislative work week. It is that, coupled with the cloture standard that has created the modern zombie filibuster mess in which Our Democrat colleagues were able to keep the Department of Homeland Security at least partially defunded for months and months out of every year. And now they're wanting to use the same trick to make sure that our elections are not secure. And shame on them. Shame on all of them. (43:03–43:10)

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Asserts that Democratic colleagues have kept the Department of Homeland Security partially defunded for extended periods annually.

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