WEBVTT

1
00:00:01.060 --> 00:00:02.000
Friendly reminder,

2
00:00:02.320 --> 00:00:07.260
it doesn't take 60 votes to pass legislation in the Senate. It takes a simple majority.

3
00:00:07.980 --> 00:00:19.860
It takes 60 votes to force debate to come to a close. But there are other ways of getting to a final vote. A final vote casted a simple majority in the Senate that don't involve cloture.

4
00:00:20.340 --> 00:00:21.720
All you have to do is

5
00:00:22.020 --> 00:00:27.520
keep debating until nobody shows up to debate or until everybody has exhausted their right to speak.

6
00:00:28.540 --> 00:00:44.000
They can only speak twice on the same discrete legislative proposal on the Senate floor during the same legislative day. The same legislative day can be kept open for days, weeks, even months if necessary, and it has in the past. There are other ways of getting there.

7
00:00:45.060 --> 00:00:50.000
We can't continue to see the 60-vote cloture standard as synonymous

8
00:00:50.380 --> 00:00:56.900
with what's required to pass a bill in the Senate. That's not how it works. It's not how it was designed. We can do better.