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Bob Corker: “If I could respond through the Chair, I think what people understand is that 42 Senators are causing a filibuster to…”

On the recordSeptember 17, 2015
If I could respond through the Chair, I think what people understand is that 42 Senators are causing a filibuster to take place and that we are not ever going to be able to get to that vote of conscience all of us have wanted to make. And since they know that, they understand this deal is going to go forward, and therefore, in order--since these people really never had the opportunity to express themselves in this manner--there never was an amendment during the debate relative to the amendment we now have before us. I think since they know it is going to go forward, since in essence the filibuster is underway that keeps this final vote from occurring and a motion of disapproval from going to the President, there is a divergence off of that to express themselves in a different way.
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Bob Corker
Republican · Tennessee
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Sep 17, 2015

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