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Chris Murphy: “The House of Representatives is not in session. This is the…”

Featuring: Chris Murphy, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Connecticut

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Trump's Shutdown: Can The Democrats Save Healthcare? w/ Sen. Chris Murphy

Published | Video Starts at 08:03

There are not. And you know, the clearest evidence of how unserious Republicans are about negotiating is the fact that they're not here. So The House of Representatives is not in session. This is the third week that they've been on kind of an unscheduled recess. You know, part of that is that they don't really want to negotiate a way out of the shutdown. (08:03–08:12)

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Asserts that the House of Representatives has been on an unscheduled recess for three weeks.

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