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Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee - Some may continue to attack the idea of keeping the Senate in session in August to debate the SAVE America Act, describing it as a recipe for failure and frustration.
Some may even try to make that warning a self-fulfilling prophecy.
It need not (and I believe will not) end in failure if we follow the simple approach I’ve outlined, informed by centuries of Senate custom and practice.
There may be other ways to skin this cat, and I’m certainly open to other options.
Budget reconciliation could be one alternative, but it’s a far more complicated way to achieve the same ends—one that has far more points of potential failure than the true, talking filibuster.
Also, as time-consuming as the talking filibuster can be, at this point it might be the only option we have time to complete before the election in November.
Regardless, I’m confident that the approach I’ve described, if followed, would put us in the best possible position to pass the SAVE America Act.
If someone’s got a better idea for how to give us the best shot possible, I’m all ears.
But in the meantime, we can’t let the naysayers win simply because we can’t guarantee victory.
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Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee - Seven Steps to Election Security
1. Call up the SAVE America Act.
2. Announce that we’ll keep debating it for at least a few weeks, working through weekends and scheduled recess time until it passes.
3. Require filibustering senators to speak, with the understanding that if they fail to do so the rules allow us to “call the question” and pass it at 51.
4. Stick to the plan—especially when it draws complaints from senators and becomes tedious—waiting at least a few weeks before even thinking about filing cloture.
5. This is how the Senate worked before we zombified the filibuster, making it automatic, silent, and free of obligation.