Mike Lee

It would require significant forces, special forces, and it would put a significant number of American ground troops in harm's way.

Robert Kelly is a former chief nuclear inspector for the IAEA.

He told Out Front that the United States, in his view, probably doesn't even really have a clue where that uranium is.

He said, quote, it can be split up into so many batches, so it's probably not all in one place.

Seems like a script for a suicide mission with little chance of success.

I mean, are you listening to this?

Well, first of all, we've actually got 49 sponsors.

Susan Collins has indicated support for us, so we're up to 50, which means we're in a position where we would survive a motion to proceed to this.

Motion to proceed to a House pass message takes place at a simple majority vote.

J.D.

Vance being available to break the tie, and I'm still hopeful that we'll pick up a small handful of other senators along the way.

The next step after that is where it gets interesting because we don't have anything close to 60 votes at this point.

And although we'd love to pick up that many, we can't be guaranteed that we'll get there in time.

I think this is an appropriate place to restore the talking filibuster to make senators actually speak if they want to filibuster a bill.

A filibuster has long been used since the dawn of the Republic, the creation of the US Senate.

It's been used as a tool by which senators have procedural rights to theoretically unlimited debate.

But throughout time, it's been understood that that requires you to actually speak because that's what the right is.

It's about speaking, about debating through speaking.

That's it.

That is exactly right.