What we did in the Senate today was denied the Republicans the ability to proceed to any legislation that doesn't have to do with restoring this funding and ending this corruption. I hope that my colleagues will view nominees through a different lens. Right now we have Lee Zeldin up for the EPA tomorrow. Whatever you think about Lee Zeldin, he's going to the EPA to implement a deeply corrupt and unconstitutional policy. So I hope the Democrats will take a harder line on legislation and on nominees because our entreaties to the country, our arguments that this is a five alarm fire … (08:00–08:09)
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