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Battle For The Senate Highlights: Crypto Amendments Blocked

This video features all the highlights from yesterday's United States Congress hearing floor webcast, including discussions about the bipartisan Infrastructure Bill and its Amendments.

Timestamps:

0:00:00 Introduction - Morning
0:00:16 Toomey-Lummnis Press Conference on Potential Compromise Amendment
0:20:19 Part Two Summery - Afternoon
0:20:45 Toomey on The Senate Floor - Opening Statement - Amendment Compromise
0:25:45 Lummis Supports New Amendment Compromise
0:30:30 Portman Makes Supporting Comments For Amendment Compromise
0:32:24 Cruz Makes Supporting Comments For Amendment Compromise
0:37:00 Toomey Submits Amendment For Unanimous Consent
0:37:14 Shelby Reserves his Objection - inserts his own amendment - hold original amendment hostage
0:37:38 Toomey quickly consents to the modification
0:37:49 Bernie Sanders objects to the modified joint amendments
0:39:23 Senator From Delaware Resubmits the original amendment compromise
0:39:42 Shelby Reserves his Objection Again resubmitting his $50 billion military amendment
0:39:54 Senator From Delaware rejects Shelby's amendment
0:40:05 Shelby Then Objects to the amendment compromise from the senator of Delaware
0:40:16 Toomey Gets Frustrated With Shelby, Explains What Just Happened & Rage Quits The Floor
0:42:50 Senator Cruz Proposes His Amendment To Remove All Crypto Regulation From The Bill
0:46:40 Shelby Reserves his Objection - inserts his own amendment - hold original amendment hostage
0:47:00 Senator Cruz tries to sway Shelby and rejects his amendment request
0:49:02 Shelby then Objects to Cruz's amendment, blocking it
0:49:11 Part Three - Late Afternoon Damage Control - Intent of Bad Language Outlined
0:49:42 Senators Portman & Warner Outline the Intent of The Bad Crypto Language in The Bill

The full video of the session can be found here.