One Democrat senator read the same poem four times. They were here all night not getting paid. 335 exactly. Federal employees in this building had to stay here all night, work through the night and into the next day. so they could make some campaign political speech or point in the middle of the night that nobody's listening to, obviously, which is why I guess you read the same … (05:35–05:46)
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Asserts that 335 federal employees worked overnight without pay due to the shutdown.
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