The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennesse (Mr. Alexander) and the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Sasse). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) would have voted ``yea.''
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For the most part our members buy into the idea that we are a team. If we’re going to succeed, we’ve got to succeed together, and that means sometimes holding hands and just doing hard things.
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.
We’re working with the stakeholder community and our members on both sides to figure out if that’s something we can execute on and get done," Thune said.
I don’t think we’ll be able to get it done, but I would like to at least get Clarity started.
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