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00:00And why are we giving Chuck Schumer power? I mean, one of the things that I would call on

00:03Thune, they just did away with the 60 vote threshold for judges. Why don't we do it for

00:08CRs? Why doesn't the Senate do it for keeping the government open? And I've called on leader Thune

00:14and the Republicans in the Senate do away with the 60 vote threshold to pass a funding bill

00:20to fund the government. It takes seven Democrats to vote to pass it because they need 60 votes.

00:25I've called on Thune to do away with the 60 vote threshold to simply fund our government.

00:31Obviously they haven't done that. So it requires them to go to Democrats to get the vote.

00:35They just exercised a nuclear option to pass Trump's judges and other confirmations because

00:41of course, Democrats are holding that up as well. Why in the world are we going to Chuck Schumer

00:45to get 60 votes to fund the government? I don't, I don't understand it. So why don't we just do what

00:50he says that we're doing and call on Thune, which I have done repeatedly to do away with

00:55the filibuster 60 vote threshold and pass the CR to fund the government. So the bill's sitting

01:00in the Senate. I've called on leader Thune numerous times. I know he's not going to do it. I've had

01:05discussions with leadership on it, change the rules and allow it to pass by majority of the,

01:12of the chamber.