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At the same time, Schumer has been careful to give negotiators -- and wavering Republicans -- the space they needed to put together a bill that would succeed, rather than just force senators to go on record for or against but result in a failed vote.

Elevating demands made by other progressive lawmakers over the past 24 hours for the Senate to return to session and for Manchin and Republicans to have to go on record for oppositing the bill, Ocasio-Cortez said: "Make it tough."

“Every senator will have an opportunity to go on record: for or against a treaty that would make the United States, and every individual state and family, subjects of unelected, unaccountable U.N. and foreign powers.”

“I guess I don’t have an answer for you for where I would go on record for where I would cut spending right now,” she said.

When Burn realized that hot August day in 1920 that he was going to go on record “for time and eternity” on the merits of women’s suffrage, “I had to vote for ratification,” he said, “and free 17 million women from political slavery.”