On the recordDecember 11, 2019
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr) and the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul).
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govinfo.govThe following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr) and the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul).
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Again, the question is $60 billion worth the risk of putting something like that on the floor, and all the other harm that could potentially come from that.
The only way you can obviously get this done is to nuke the legislative filibuster, and that is not something that we have anywhere close to the votes to do.
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