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Ted Cruz: “We could have legislation that gets 60 votes, because to do…”

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Now, there are two ways that can happen. One, we could see 8, 9, 10 reasonable Democrats willing to work with Republicans on something that does that. And We could have legislation that gets 60 votes, because to do that through ordinary, ordinary procedures takes 60 votes. just like it takes 60 votes to fund the government. I think that's unlikely, although I'm sure in the next month there will be some Republicans who try to. (14:44–14:52)

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