Rep. Chip Roy
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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 wants to slow walk a bill.
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.