WASHINGTON –Congressman Byron Donalds (R-FL) joined Kudlow on Fox Business Network to discuss the House Oversight and Government Reform's upcoming hearing on fraud in Minnesota, and the need to end the Senate filibuster.
"When you don't have audits and you don't have eligibility checks, what you are asking for is rampant fraud. That's what happened in Minnesota":
"Tim Walz, Keith Ellison, they need to come into Congress, and they have to answer a lot of questions. Number one question is, when were you alerted to this? Number two, did you allow any inspector general or any other gubernatorial investigations to move forward? Number three, how long has this been going on under your watch? Those are all the three big questions. But I think a bigger issue overall and people need to understand is that a lot of these grant programs, a lot of these special programs, the Democrats continuously block audit requirements. They block eligibility requirements for these programs. And when you don't have audits and you don't have eligibility checks, what you are asking for is rampant fraud. That's what happened in Minnesota. My concern is that Minnesota is the tip of the iceberg. It's happening in many other states around America."
"It actually does not allow for real compromise. It does not allow for real policy to move forward":
"No, I think the Senate filibuster is something that's really been destructive of the Senate. Good bills go to die because you can't find a way to get 10 Democrat senators to go along with commonsense policy. Furthermore, I would add that what the Senate filibuster does right now it doesn't breed compromise. It ends compromise before you even have an opportunity to pull it together. The Senate filibuster in its current form was created in 1917. The vote total needed to clear a filibuster at that time was 67 votes. IN 1975, the Senate changed the filibuster rule to 60 votes. And the reason they changed it to 60 is that they couldn't overcome filibusters. The filibuster is something that was created by the Senate for the Senate. It actually does not allow for real compromise. It does not allow for real policy to move forward."
