There was a moment where there was an effort to raise the debt ceiling. I was literally a freshman. I had just gotten here. We were 50, 50 Senate. And I warned my colleagues that I felt very strongly that we needed to do everything to put out the fire that was raging against our democracy in the wake of January 6th. (39:16–39:19)
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Asserts that the Senate was evenly split 50-50 at the time.
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