Tammy Baldwin: “Obviously, none had signed onto the Equality act, so there…”

“… is because I had already been meeting with a group of them pretty much individually, but a substantial number trying to gauge where they would be on the Equality Act. Obviously, none had signed onto the Equality act, so there were no Republicans on it. And obviously we need to get up to 60 votes in order to overcome a filibuster. So I needed some of them.” (20:14–20:21)

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