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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