'The Rules Are The Rules': Warren Calls Out Tim Scott's Sudden Reversal

In a Senate Banking Committee markup, Chairman Tim Scott opens by declaring one rule for everyone — no exceptions, no amendments restored after the cutoff. Sixteen amendments are eliminated, evenly across both parties, under that standard. Then, mid-session, a private request for a "bipartisan deal" leads Scott to personally reverse course — reinstating three Republican amendments previously ruled ineligible. Senator Elizabeth Warren confronts him directly, pointing to two Democratic amendments still excluded: one backed by the National Sheriffs Association targeting cartel money laundering through decentralized platforms, and one protecting community banks from deposit flight. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto presses further, asking why her amendment remains blocked by the same technicality used to disqualify the ones Scott just restored. What follows is a real-time exchange over whether "the rules are the rules" — or whether they bend depending on who is asking.