Senator John Thune
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And so if we're going to have that conversation, we should.
But it ought to be in a place and time where we can work through some of these issues and look at some of the reforms that would come with that.
Well, thanks, Sandra.
Obviously, straight talk from the president.
He puts out the unvarnished truth.
And I think the thing that he makes clear in all these discussions that relate to foreign policy and national security is that he's restoring PSU's strength.
And the president knows full well that it is not our strength that tempts our adversaries.
It's our weakness.
All right, we're done.
Right. Well, good question, guys. I mean, it's mind-blowing to me that this has become a political issue where the Democrats are so tethered to their, I guess, transgender ideological political base that they're willing to throw common sense out the window. I mean, this is just, to me, almost incomprehensible that we're even having this conversation.
It's, you know, having biological males as the opponents of young women is both fundamentally unfair and it's potentially dangerous, honestly. And so, you know, Coach Tuberville, Tommy Tuberville, the senator from Alabama, led this on the floor. We had a vote on it last night, and you are correct. Every single Democrat to the person voted against it.
And it's an 80-20 issue, as you point out, with the American people. I just can't explain it. I think there was no lesson learned from the election. I think it's common sense issues like this that the American people expect their leaders to act on, and they just block voted against it. What can you say?
Yeah, I mean, I think that's really honestly the assumptions of it. You know, you could say that the bill could be changed this year or that way, but it's really very straightforward. And, you know, I mean, and there was a day when Democrats would have been, you know, quick to defend Title IX, and here we are.
But, you know, I mean, this is, again, I mentioned this on the floor yesterday, but I had a business professor in graduate school who used to say some things are just intuitively obvious. And I think this is one of those things that's intuitively obvious to people. And I know something I obviously feel strongly about.
I'm, as a father of two women who played sports and, you know, one of whom is in our high school and college Hall of Fame, I just, I can't imagine a world where you would have guys competing against women and taking away opportunities, not only to excel in their field and their sport, but also for college scholarships and things that, this has serious downstream consequences
But the Democrats, on a substance level, on a political level, seem to have made a decision that they would rather defend, again, an ideology that is completely out of step with the American people.
Yeah, I know it's hard. It's an inside baseball thing here. It's, it's unique to the United States Senate, but under, uh, under our rules in the Senate, and this was kind of the system that the founders handed us, it takes a super majority to do almost anything consequential. And, um, and this is, so it's 60 votes in the Senate is required to move legislation with very few exceptions.
And one of the things we're working on right now, you've probably heard your, your listeners have probably heard too. the president talk about budget reconciliation.
When you have unified control of the government, in other words, the House, the Senate, and the White House, there are things you can do at 51 votes in the Senate that you otherwise wouldn't be able to do through a procedure that is, again, unique to the Senate. But on most issues, and this is an issue where, you know, again, it's a bill that we put in front of the Senate.
And this, honestly, this was just a motion to proceed to the bill. This wasn't even the, this was just to get on it, just to debate it. They voted against even having a debate about it, and that takes 60 as well. So it's a 60-vote threshold, and I know that's, for most Americans, everybody's like, well, isn't 51 a majority in the Senate?
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