Senator Roger Marshall

These are grown-up people.

I'm just going to say, Vince, that's a fool's errand.

I spent weekends doing AI and doing war models on how this would work out, and we always lose.

When you're in the minority, you can sabotage this.

And that was my point, is that the minority can bring up amendments, and then Republicans have to produce a majority to go in there and block their silly amendments.

They would give us amendments on so many silly things, and some of them would pass, right?

Some of their silly amendments, I call them silly, but they're poison pills, and then would kill the bill.

They could ask for a quorum call as well, and we would have to get up 10 times in the middle of the night, so we would be anchored here.

It would go on for months.

Every time they bring up a new amendment, then each one of them gets two more speeches as well.

I'm sorry that

I'm disappointed that it was presented as an easy task, but I think there's a 99% chance that we lose that at the end of the game.

That's my opinion.

I spent hours on this trying to figure out how does it really end up.

We end up losing it 99 times out of 100, if not 100 times out of 100.

desperation that we're losing our republic.

I share that 110%.

And I think it's great that you can challenge me.

And just like you're challenging me, these are the same type of discussions that we have at lunchtime in the United States Senate as well.

So those same conversations are happening.