Brian Schatz: “House Republicans have been gone for more than a month.”

“And it is astonishing to me that the party in charge of the government literally won't show up to work during the second longest shutdown in American history. House Republicans have been gone for more than a month. More than a month. They've worked two weeks out of the last three months. Nice work if you can get it. You were all here.” (00:47–00:51)

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