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  • 6/30/2025
Senate Republicans voting in a dramatic late Saturday session narrowly cleared a key procedural step as they race to advance President Donald Trump's package of tax breaks, spending cuts and bolstered deportation funds by his July Fourth deadline.
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00:00The yeas are 51. The nays are 49. The motion is agreed to. The clerk will report the bill.
00:10Calendar number 107, H.R. 1, an act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title 2 of H. Conres 14.
00:20I call up amendment number 2360. The clerk will report.
00:24The senator from South Dakota, Mr. Thune, proposes an amendment number 2360.
00:33Mr. President, I ask consent the reading be dispensed with.
00:35Preserving the right to objection. And I will object.
00:39Senate Republicans are scrambling to pass a radical bill released to the public in the dead of night,
00:45praying the American people don't realize what's in it.
00:49If Senate Republicans won't tell the American people what's in this bill,
00:53then Democrats are going to force this chamber to read it from start to finish. I object.
01:00Objections heard.
01:03All right.
01:08The clerk will read the amendment.
01:09The clerk will read the amendment.

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