John Thune

So it's their problem.

They created it.

Now they're expecting Republicans to try and solve it for them.

And that's their price for opening up the federal government.

And it's a price that is a very stiff one because you're looking at to do it the way they want to do it.

It's about $400 billion.

Well, I think that legislative – and by the way, the executive calendar, which is different.

So that's judges.

All the executive branch nominees are on the executive calendar.

And we did change the rules.

We changed the rules most recently here just about six weeks ago on nominees, Trump executive branch nominees that Democrats had just completely filibustered and shut that process down.

So we opened it up.

The legislative filibuster is designed to protect the voice of the minority in this country and it's been used effectively for a long time to do just that.

It has prevented a lot of bad things from happening.

Republicans have used it.

in the past.

And most recently, the Democrats tried to get rid of the filibuster for what they called their elections reform bill, which basically was consolidating all of elections in Washington, D.C.

It would have taken power to regulate elections away from the states, would have done away with voter ID.

And had it not been for Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin, they would have succeeded in doing it at that time.

They voted against it.