{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.lee.senate.gov/2026/6/senator-lee-on-fox-news-debate-save-america-act-until-it-passes-trust-president-trump-on-iran", "Senator Lee on FOX News: Debate SAVE America Act Until it Passes, Trust President Trump on Iran", "2026-06-22", "2026", "2026-06", "Republican", "Senate", "UT", "Mike Lee", "L000577", "www.lee.senate.gov", "mikelee", "https://www.lee.senate.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) joined FOX News Sunday with host Shannon Bream to outline a path to passage for the SAVE America Act, call on the Senate to skip vacation, and discuss President Trump\u2019s America-First navigation of the conflict in Iran. Watch the full interview here.\n\nWatch Senator Lee outline the SAVE America Act's path to passage here.\n\nSenator Lee on the SAVE America Act\u2019s Path to Passage:\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s important to remember that the original SAVE America Act \u2013 the one that was passed by the House of Representatives \u2013 does have simple majority support in the Senate. While it\u2019s true that we\u2019re ten votes shy of cloture (forcing debate to a close), that doesn\u2019t mean that we couldn\u2019t pass it.\n\n\u201cThere are a couple ways to get there.\n\n\u201cOne would be nuking the filibuster, which appears unlikely to happen. But the other way is to exhaust the other side \u2013 to continue to debate the bill until it passes. This was a common procedure in the Senate for most of its existence; it needs to be used from time to time in situations like this one.\n\n\u201cLook, the American people overwhelmingly support this \u2013 Republicans, Democrats alike. We\u2019re talking about three out of four Americans \u2013 regardless of political party \u2013 want to make it easy to vote and hard to cheat. That\u2019s what the House-passed SAVE America Act does, and the Senate needs to be willing to do that hard work to make sure that happens.\n\n\u201cIf we put it on the floor tomorrow, and we announce that we\u2019re going to debate it until it passes, I\u2019m confident that we can get there.\u201d\n\n\u2013\n\nWatch Senator Lee call on the Senate to stop vacationing and start working here.\n\nSenator Lee on the Senate Vacationing Instead of Voting:\n\n\u201cDays or weeks can feel like months or years to United States senators who want to be doing other things. The truth is we haven't tried what I believe it takes to get the Save America Act passed, which is to put it on the floor and to say we're going to debate this for weeks. And we'll stay through weekends, we'll stay through previously scheduled recesses if necessary, but we're going to stay on this bill until it passes.\n\n\u201cNothing sharpens the mind, nothing hastens agreement, nothing will bring about face-saving and perfecting amendments, quite like the obligation to stay in and debate something that is popular with the American people when filibustering senators trying to slow it down are becoming steadily less popular in their arguments.\u201d\n\n\u2013\n\nWatch Senator Lee discuss President Trump\u2019s navigation of Iran here.\n\nSenator Lee on President Trump\u2019s America-First Leadership on Iran:\n\n\u201cLet's remember that President Trump is not like other presidents who have tried to address this issue. Both President Obama and President Biden negotiated from a position of weakness. President Trump has done everything that is absolutely necessary to make sure that we're negotiating from a position of strength.\n\n\u201cThis is the master of the art of the deal \u2013 don't count him out.\n\n\u201cIn fact, I would bank on the fact that President Trump will make darn sure Iran complies. And if it doesn't, Iran will face very unpleasant consequences. Iran has seen already what happens when you mess with President Trump, and they will see it again if they don't comply.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-06-23T06:27:52Z", "2026-06-23T06:29:20Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.lee.senate.gov/2026/6/senator-lee-on-fox-news-debate-save-america-act-until-it-passes-trust-president-trump-on-iran"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.096441876143217, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}