Mike Lee
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217 appearances
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6 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 26 Apr
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What happens after that?
We need this law.
We need this in statute and it's a lot harder, um, for a subsequent administration to undo a law than it is an executive order.
And it's also a lot harder for them to get this thing halted in court.
If it's a statute that leaves no ambiguity,
as opposed to an executive order, which very often is fraught with litigation risks, in part because some executive orders end up having to be based on authorities that are not quite as crystal clear as they need to be.
Okay, so a few days ago, John Thune joined on to the Save America Act as a co-sponsor.
He is supportive of the legislation.
I have repeatedly made the case to him personally, privately, and with the rest of the Senate Republican Conference, including last week for about an hour to all my Senate Republican colleagues about the need for the legislation to
and about how I think we ought to go about it by restoring the talking filibuster and how that would work.
He is taking the matter under advisement and is continuing to hear from me and others that we think this needs to happen.
So that is not yet decided, but I am guardedly optimistic that we will get to the right place because this is how it has to be done.
All we lose if we try, all we lose is some time, but it's what we've got on our side.
We need to have this fight.
Uh, in the worst case scenario, we try it and, and somehow, uh, we, we walk away and the thing falls apart.
By the way, I think the only way it falls apart is if we don't have wholehearted support.
Both from our own Senate Republican leadership and from our Senate Republican rank and file membership, it would take strong support and a commitment to work as a team on this.
But, you know, we can do hard things.
And I believe this would take some time, somewhere between a few days.
And a few weeks, I think, is the magic ticket.
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