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John Cornyn: “Democrats refuse to conduct the Senate's business while…”

Featuring: John Cornyn, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Published | Video Starts at 00:09

The shutdown is dragging on, President Trump leaving for Asia no end in sight. How long do you expect this to last? Well, it's really up to Democrats refuse to conduct the Senate's business while there are many important things for us to be attending to. But now for 21, I guess going on 22 days, they've simply been uncooperative. This used to be fairly routine to pass a short term stopgap spending bill to allow us to complete our work before the end of the year. (00:09–00:20)

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