Senator Mike Lee
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 11 Aug
Senator Mike Lee’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Senate should stay here tomorrow, this weekend, next week, through weekends and long scheduled recesses, as long as it takes.
If opponents want to block it, let them do so in public.
If Democrats want to filibuster this bill, let them stand and speak like actual senators, actually filibustering, because that's what filibustering is.
Shame on us if we don't take the steps necessary to extricate ourselves from the sharp, clinging talents of the so-called zombie filibuster, the name that I've assigned for the use of the 60-vote cloture standard as a de facto 60-vote passage standard, which it is not, which it was never meant to be, which if it were, it would arguably run afoul of the Constitution.
The reason we talk about this and the reason I contrast what I call the real filibuster, the talking filibuster, against the zombie filibuster is that in the case of the zombie filibuster, nobody even has to work for it.
The way it always worked before and after they first adopted the cloture standard for the first time in 1917, although it was set at a 3-4 supermajority back then, they would just continue to debate it.
That's what we should do here.
If you want to filibuster, you can, you may do so, but you should have to stand here and speak.
And when nobody else shows up to speak against it, that's over.
And you call the question on the bill and you call it not at 60 votes, you call it at 51.
That's what we ought to be doing.
We should put this bill on the floor and we should debate it until such time as it passes.
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