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Cleta Mitchell @CletaMitchell - UPDATE ON THE SAVE AMERICA ACT - Amazing news! Week of March 16: @LeaderJohnThune has announced he IS putting the #SAVE America Act on the floor AND he is not immediately moving for cloture - which would instantly kill the bill. That WAS the original plan until @LeaderJohnThune ran into the buzzsaw of the American people going berserk about that idea.
And the determination of @realDonaldTrump to change that plan
This is what is NOW going to happen this week:
@LeaderJohnThune will move on Tuesday (tentatively) to consider the House message on #SaveAmericaAct and the Senate WILL start the consideration of the bill.
There will be a series of procedural motions (which are not describable in plain English), but which will get the bill to the floor for consideration. None are cloture, and none will require 60 votes.
@LeaderJohnThune will fill the amendment tree. There will be consideration of amendments. This will be similar to what is sometimes called vote-a-rama in the Senate
There is going to be debate - organized so @LeaderJohnThune maintains control of the floor.
All of this is a sea change from a week ago. Or even since last Tuesday.
It is not a “talking filibuster” but it is ongoing debate and consideration. The Senate may leave the bill and go to other matters and then return. And that could happen more than once.
That’s about all I can say - senate procedures are arcane and hard to follow.
What is most important to know is this particular next phase is a win. It is a BIG step. It is a result of the people rising up and slamming the Senate last week.
We the people were so angry at @LeaderJohnThune after his remarks on Tuesday throwing in the towel without a fight, and there was such an avalanche of calls and social media posts MAINLY ON X, attacking @LeaderJohnThune Thune and the @SenateGOP that it really shook up the Senate leadership, penetrated their hard heads, and they finally started listening.
That’s all thanks to YOU, the people of the country.
And is a testament also to @BasedMikeLee @chiproytx @ScottforFlorida @SenRonJohnson, Rob Borden who works for @BasedMikeLee plus several more stalwart Senators and House members committed to getting this bill passed- and it was especially a result of the amazing outpouring of public pressure on the Senators.
The battle we waged on X paid off and that is an historic achievement. Example: @MarkMeadows started on Tuesday posting on X the names of the @SenateGOP senators committed to vote yes on the bill AND the talking filibuster. And also the @SenateGOP members who have NOT.
@MarkMeadows posts on X received 21.8 MILLION views. Read that again. 21.8 million views.