Sen. Mike Lee

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338 appearances 4 recordings 2 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 20 Jun

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The Glenn Beck Program · Is Iran Preparing to Attack California?! | Guests: Sen. Mike Lee & Bill O'Reilly | 3/12/26 · 12 Mar 2026 podcast

I don't know how much time it's going to take, but you subject them to that for enough time.

And I'm very confident some of them are going to start to see the light on this.

Some of them are going to start coming to the negotiating table on this because they don't want to have to defend the indefensible very long.

Well, if it means he's going to bring it up, we'll have a motion brief.

See, that's the beauty of this bill at the procedural status of the bill.

It's coming over from the house of representatives in the form of a message.

There are all these weird rules that relate to the interplay between the house rules and the summit rules.

The House sends us a bill in the form of a message.

That means that we don't have to take a cloture vote at the front end to get onto the bill.

With many bills, you've got to cast a vote on what's called cloture on the motion to proceed.

And that takes 60 votes to get us to the point where we can proceed to a bill.

We don't have that here.

So when he's going to bring it up, getting onto the bill will occur at a simple majority vote threshold.

And we just need to debate the bill for a while for a considerable amount of time without filing cloture, without going to the next step of bringing debate to a close on the bill itself, because that takes 60 votes.

We don't have that yet.

Following back to our example from the civil rights act of 1964, they were 32 votes shy of cloture.

When the bill arrived from the house of representatives in March of 1964, they spent 60 days debating it.

And lo and behold,

Those people who were opposed to it, mostly Democrats, by the way, they started to negotiate after a few weeks of this.

And they were eventually able to negotiate some changes that allowed them to save enough face that they were able to and willing to vote for cloture at the end of the process.

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