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Shep. shepard: john roberts live. thank you. team fox coverage continues. chad pergram reporting live from capitol hill. ex-lane what is happening in the senate, chad. this is the first move by senate republicans and mitch mcconnell the majority leader feels that the senate needs to be for something. so they re going to try to force democrats hands here. what we re going to have in the next 24 hours, legislative text here so people can look at what this bill looks like and tomorrow he is going to try to get this bill up on the floor. this is very important. this parliamentary posture the senate is in. they have to cut off debate on the motion to proceed. you just need a simple majority to proceed to the bill. if they can t get clearance, he has to filed cloture, the mechanism that you use to end debate on a bill and that won t ripen until thursday if he files that tomorrow. there s 53 republicans in the senate. if all 53 of those republicans stick together, you still need seven dem ....
For, look at 2020 republicans that face re-election and competitive states. martha mcsally in arizona, a swing state there. same with iowa, joni ernst. at the end of the day, if this is perceived as voting for am any test, they could face challenges. this is a narrow line here. at the end of the day, they want to punt this ho the house of representatives and put the pressure there, shep. shepard: what is happening on the house side, chad? that is what is so interesting here. the sides are still really just talking past one another. you have this bill in the senate tomorrow, try to get it in the senate. the house will move with a series of six bills, all but the dhs appropriations bills. they were conferenced and negotiated between democrats and republicans in the house and senate. what you continue to have here is this effort by democrats to say why don t we get republicans to vote for this. the high water mark on any of those bills, shep, has been 12 republicans. i don t really th ....