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Let's talk about Dems setting up the GOP with votes....

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Belle of the Ranch

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🗓️ 23 June 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Let's talk about Dems setting up the GOP with votes....

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0:00.0

Well, howdy there internet people, let's bow again. So today we are going to talk about some

0:07.7

political maneuvering that is occurring up on Capitol Hill. What's going on in the Senate, and then maybe a

0:17.4

surprise that is occurring over in the House. And we'll have to wait and see how it plays out, but there's some

0:24.6

interesting movement. Okay, so we have talked a few times about House Schumer over in

0:30.8

the Senate, the Democratic leader over there, has arranged a number of votes and

0:37.6

those votes are putting Republicans in a position where they have to actually vote on something,

0:48.4

rather than just say therefore it and then not act. And those votes have been incredibly uncomfortable for a lot of

0:57.5

Republicans. They've done this with IVF protection, Supreme Court ethics,

1:05.0

protection for contraceptives, and now with bump stocks as well.

1:10.0

These votes are going to be votes you'll see in the campaign.

1:15.0

They're creating campaign material by doing this.

1:20.0

My opponent, they voted to block protections for IVF, even though they said they were

1:30.6

for it. That's what they're doing. Now I mean the easy fix for

1:36.5

this for the Republican Party would be to actually vote in favor of you

1:41.5

know protecting people's reproductive rights but I mean I guess that's just a

1:47.3

bridge too far the thing is over in the house Republicans seem to feel like they don't have to worry about this,

1:56.0

because their leadership is in charge in the House.

2:00.0

The Democratic Party is putting together discharge petitions.

2:05.0

This is something there is not a Schoolhouse Rock episode on,

2:10.0

but the short version is that if you get enough representatives to sign on to something,

2:15.6

you can sidestep the leadership.

2:19.5

And it's weird that they're doing this because I mean realistically it's unlikely that they get

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