Our job would be then to go through the regular order process of taking this before the committee. If it has such broad bipartisan support. Fine. But again, similar. Similar efforts along these lines have failed in the past with Democrat majorities in both the House and the Senate. There's something about this that concerns people, so vet it out in the committee process. We're trying to bypass that process by unanimous consent requests. (21:40–21:47)
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