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Ted Cruz: “It takes 60 votes because under the filibuster rule, you've…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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And that's what the House has passed. Now, the challenge is for anything to pass the Senate that is in the nature of an appropriations or CR. Yeah, It takes 60 votes because under the filibuster rule, you've got to have 60 votes to move forward on legislation. So as I mentioned, we got 55, we got three Democrats, but we need 60, which means we need at least seven Democrats. (04:03–04:12)

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Asserts that 60 votes are needed in the Senate to move forward on legislation due to the filibuster rule.

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