00:01Senate Democrats are using unprecedented obstruction and use of the zombie filibuster in order to get their priorities.
00:08It's working well for them.
00:09They got all the departments and agencies in the federal government funded that they like,
00:15but then somehow they refuse utterly to cooperate on any spending bill that would fund the Department of Homeland Security.
00:23So we're having to reinvent the wheel, go through a very elaborate process just to fund this one department,
00:28whose success is material, indispensable to our national security and to President Trump's agenda.
00:33We're having to go through this process that actually takes weeks to complete just so we can pass it with
00:38a simple majority of votes.
00:40Here is the problem.
00:41All this is a symptom of our refusal to enforce the talking filibuster.
00:46If we were to enforce the talking filibuster, we could exhaust them and get to the point where they either
00:51provide us with the 60 votes we need
00:52or they get lazy, they get sloppy, they exhaust themselves and eventually we find a way to get it passed.
01:00If we're willing to do that, great.
01:01It's probably the way we ought to do it.
01:03It protects debate to use the talking filibuster.
01:06But if we're not willing to use the talking filibuster, it's time to nuke it.
01:10Why?
01:10Look, this zombie filibuster thing that we're using, which is sort of the opposite of what the filibuster is supposed
01:15to do and supposed to be,
01:17not only is there obstruction with it unprecedented of late and causing all sorts of problems,
01:25but it's inuring disproportionately to the benefit of the Democrats.
01:29Not something we want to be doing in these rare and often fleeting moments when we've got Republican control of
01:35the Senate, of the House and of the White House.
01:37So let's either enforce the talking filibuster or nuke the zombie filibuster.
01:43You can't have it both ways.
01:44Let's get this done.
01:45We will continue running around this like just on a hamster wheel until we fix the problem.
01:52I don't really care that much which.
01:54I'd rather enforce the talking filibuster, but if I'm not willing to do the hard work of that, for the
01:58love of Pete, let's nuke it.
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