Brian Schimming: “Republicans have been willing to sit down and talk about it…”

“Yeah, I don't know that much will happen in the interim. Really. I think that, you know, we'll see if there's a deal that the Republicans and Democrats can sit down. Republicans have been willing to sit down and talk about it forever. It's the Democrats who forced us into this shutdown situation. So we have an opportunity here to talk and have a national discussion about health care, and I suspect we will.” (05:27–05:31)

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