Sen. Mike Lee

We've got to make them speak.

We've got to make them call the floor.

We've got to make them defend their indefensible position.

in front of the American people under the white hot lights of the Senate floor.

And we got to make them do it for a significant amount of time.

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.