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That was just introduced. because of the late nature of this, every senator has leverage to delay the final vote because they need to have whats called unanimous consent. all 100 senators need to agree to have a vote by friday, by the deadline, before midnight tomorrow, otherwise there will be a shutdown. if one senator objects, that would force the majority leader chuck schumer to go through the process which takes days to find the vote and that could move it into next week which would result i...

Dont really have a vote, its just unless any senator objects, it passes the law to pass the background check. i believe there are 60 votes to ban bump stocks. i believe we could have 60 votes at the federal level to change the age from 18 to 21 on the purchase of any rifles. i believe -- and i know youre a co-sponsor of the safe school act. prevent, you know, its the safe school act thats been filed by a member of congress from florida that is going to be filed on monday -- its going to be filed...

Armed for battle and -- i dont know a better analogy to use. maybe more sinically, a desire to show the families, the victims, that they dont want to politicize this issue. it may get politicized later, seems like it always does. in the initial days, the very powerful visuals and remarks from these children and their parents has caused many democrats to say we want to work with the president, not against him, and has caused the white house and some republicans like rubio to say, what can we do, ...

Washington, d.c., were going to try to do this thing called unanimous consent where you dont really have a vote, its just unless any senator objects, it passes the law to pass the background check. i believe there are 60 votes to ban bump stocks. i believe we could have 60 votes at the federal level to change the age from 18 to 21 on the purchase of any rifles. i believe -- and i know youre a co-sponsor of the safe school act. prevent, you know, its the safe school act thats been filed by a memb...

For republicans maybe to respond to this other than just a hard line no. >> now, he actually said that last night. he used a procedural mechanism. he said monday we could try anonymous consent. listen to this for a second. >> on monday, when we return to washington, d.c., we will try to do this thing called unanimous consent. unless any senator objects, it passes a law to fix the background check. i believe there are 60 votes to ban bump stocks. i believe we could potentially have 60 votes at th...

Foreclosures. none of those bills ever get to the floor. they filibuster the motion to proceed. they dont talk. they can call the cloak room from anywhere in the country and one senator objects. then it takes 60 to move the ball forward. this is a disgrace. no democracy in the world operates like this. >> it was amazing because your unions and others saw the dream act, paycheck act, american jobs act, all of these different bills were filibustered where one senator just blocked it. its almost am...

Consensus. in 1 of 100 objects to anything on the floor, that can be any kind of motion from the simplest to the most important, if any senator objects, the chamber grinds to a halt. my gut says ep doesnt want to do anything that can, a, backfire on him and if the democrats lose in the next cycle, they have to operate under the same rules. >> yjimmy williams, thank you. >> well swing to the capitol and look at the house. theres a new candidate im watching for 2016. his name? jace roshson of duck...