And I think for the first time the President heard our objections and heard why we needed a bipartisan bill. Their bill has not one iota of Democratic input. That is never how we've done this before. When I was leader, we negotiated four times with Republicans and we never had a shutdown. And so it's up to the Republicans whether they want to shut down or not. We've made to the President some proposals. Our Republican leaders will have to talk to them about them. (24:44–24:52)
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Asserts that during his leadership, negotiations with Republicans occurred four times without a government shutdown.
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