Rep. Chip Roy

I used the rules.

The rules, the Senate rules, is built around the filibuster.

The filibuster is a great tool, right?

It's an important part of the Senate and its history and its legacy.

But we need Mr. Smith to go back to Washington.

If you don't get that joke, it's the old movie, right?

And where Jimmy Stewart had to be on the floor of the Senate.

filibustering and talking what we've done is we've defaulted to this notion it's a fake filibuster or a zombie filibuster as mike lee says that oh there's a 60 vote threshold to shut off debate if a senator you know wants to slow walk a bill that's that's a mechanism that is one tool to shut off debate the other thing to do is make them talk

And if they keep talking, let them keep talking.

There's a two-speech rule where you can only give two speeches on a topic.

If Republicans are disciplined, Democrats will run out of gas.

And it's a win-win.

If they successfully filibuster for two months, then they've been on the floor of the Senate telling America they want noncitizens to vote rather than protect our elections.

They oppose voter ID even though it's an 85% issue.

or we break their back and we get good policy.

That's a win-win.

We're not changing the rules.

That's not what we're saying.

We're saying use the rules, use the Senate, do your job, speak, stop playing fake games and trying to tell the American people that failure theater, putting the bill on the floor, the 60 vote threshold is doing your job.

It's not.