Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) denied promising that Senate Republicans would weaken the filibuster to pass the SAVE Act, telling the Washington Examiner on Tuesday that he only agreed to speak with the rest of his conference about it.
“We haven’t made any commitments,” Thune said, rebuffing suggestions from Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) that he was prepared to embrace the “talking filibuster,” which allows a simple majority vote after a marathon of floor speeches.
“I made a commitment to have a conversation about it with our members and try and find out where the consensus of the Republican conference is,” Thune added.
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When he became majority leader last year, Thune vowed to protect the filibuster, which currently requires at least 60 senators to support
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