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Rick Scott — The Senate Is Run by 'Dictatorships'

Published October 10, 2024 | Video Starts at 31:13

I mean, you, you know, if you have to build a lot of relationships, raise the money. So. And so, yeah, I mean, it's, it, you know, so, you know, do you want to vote? Are you going to vote against somebody that might spend $40 million in your race? Right. It's pretty hard to do that. There's not, there's not a lot of us that would do that. Right. (31:13–31:17)

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“Medicare [is] going bankrupt in four or five years, [and] Social Security in 12 or 13 years.”
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“In 2023, one out of every 44 Americans was subject to a violent crime.”
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“We've got a great Republican Party in Florida, but you come up here and they sort of forgot what they ran on.”
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“How do we get to $35 trillion of debt, open border, no accountability of the executive branch.”
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“It looks like they're trying to get us another omnibus in December.”
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“You're paying for a new opera house in Pennsylvania.”
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“This is not sustainable, $35 trillion worth of debt.”
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“Interest rates for mortgages have skyrocketed in the last three and a half years.”
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“We're spending $2 trillion, 40% more than we collect every year.”
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“We don't have meetings about the numbers we have. We have meetings about climate change.”
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“The Biden administration comes and explains their budget. They don't even know anything about their own budget.”
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“We don't pass appropriations bills, they don't bring them to the floor.”
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“They'll have a big omnibus in December. I will not have seen it. They want me to vote on it.”
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“Two people in the Senate get to decide what's in the spending bill. McConnell and Schumer, they decide.”
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“Omnibus can't pass without at least 10 Republicans voting for it.”
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“We have dictatorships. We have the McConnell dictatorship and the Schumer dictatorship.”
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“We want to make sure the border's secure.”
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“We have to preserve Medicare. We have to preserve Social Security.”
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“It's not sustainable to have $35 trillion to debt.”
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“They know it's not sustainable that we'd have no accountability of the executive branch.”
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“I ran against McConnell. He's not going to help me.”
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“We don't have appropriations bills done.”
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“Bills aren't going through committee.”
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“The continuing resolution... didn't go through any committee.”
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“In our bylaws, we're supposed to have a legislative agenda.”
Rick Scott — The Senate Is Run by 'Dictatorships' | Uploaded October 10, 2024 | 25:32-25:36
“I've been up here six years. There's no legislative agenda.”
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“McConnell didn't help me. The NRC didn't help me.”
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“Stephen Law runs the Senate Leadership Fund, which is McConnell's fund.”
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“The NRC and SLF, they're generally investing in the same races.”
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“They're not investing in my race.”
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“It pushes people to vote with Schumer on the Democrat side and it pushes people to vote with McConnell on the Democrats.”
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“It's work to raise money. Right. And I mean, it's a lot of work.”
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“It looks like the only tough races to defend are Ted Cruz's in mind.”
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“If we can keep those win West Virginia and get three or four others, then we would have. It would be easier to pass legislation.”
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“You still have to get to 60 votes, but it would be easier to pass legislation and easier to get reconciliation done.”
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“Get a majority is number one priority because that gives you the ability to decide what we vote on.”
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“If Trump doesn't have a majority in the House and the Senate, it's going to be difficult for him.”
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“If we don't have a majority in the House, they'll impeach him over something because they don't care.”
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“If we have a bigger majority, we could have two more votes on every committee.”
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“Democrats seem to have more money, so you're going to have to try to do your best to raise more money.”
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“I'm the only Republican that won in, in 2018 in a swing state in the Senate because I got my vote out.”
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“If you want a better education system, Republicans believe that you should have choices, Democrats don't.”
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“Republicans are going to secure the border.”
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