It's embarrassing. It should be embarrassing. In the world's greatest deliberative body, that's what the US Senate is sometimes called. What a joke. What a joke. Democrats have made of the world's greatest deliberative body when they shut down the United States Senate and make it impossible for us to pass a simple stopgap spending bill that would take us to November 21st. Well, I applaud the men and women who are continuing to go to work to keep the planes in the air and trains running on time even though they're not being paid. (13:21–13:37)
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Asserts that Democrats have shut down the Senate, preventing a stopgap spending bill.
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