significant number of republicans to get well in excess of 218. you ve got to have the pressure on his caucus. and that s what a senate vote would do in what shows like this do, frankly, to put pressure on republicans to do the right thing here. last question. can you win the moderate republican there are still left, the peter kings, the pat me hans, can you get them to vote for this if you walk in the door with that petition? i know you re a senator, but when some democrat walks in the door, steny hoyer, somebody, mrs. pelosi, walks in that door, puts that thing on his desk. if you don t sign this discharge petition, you re an enemy of labor, and that hurts you. it hurts you at home. will that work? well, it certainly would vote for it if it were on the floor. i don t know about those individuals. but most of them would. they go against their a lot of the party leadership there puts a lot of pressure on these guys not to sign those, but i think you continue to push. and eventual
i know if you put it on the floor, you re going to get a significant number of republicans to get well in excess of 218. you ve got to have the pressure on his caucus. and that s what a senate vote would do in what shows like this do, frankly, to put pressure on republicans to do the right thing here. last question. can you win the moderate republican there are still left, the peter kings, the pat me hans, can you get them to vote for this if you walk in the door with that petition? i know you re a senator, but when some democrat walks in the door, steny hoyer, somebody, mrs. pelosi, walks in that door, puts that thing on his desk. if you don t sign this discharge petition, you re an enemy of labor, and that hurts you. it hurtious at home. will that work? well, it certainly would vote for it if it were on the floor. i don t know about those individuals. but most of them would. they go against their a lot of the party leadership there puts a lot of pressure on these guys not to si