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John Thune: “If anything should be clear by now, it's that I am…”

Featuring: John Thune, Republican | Senate Majority Leader, South Dakota

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Thune: Democrats Block Bipartisan Defense Bill to Pay Our Troops

Published | Video Starts at 02:51

But that's how we fashioned getting these appropriation bills on the floor and getting them voted on. Now, if anything should be clear by now, If anything should be clear by now, it's that I am interested in doing a normal appropriations process, unlike what happened when they had the majority, which was the Appropriations Committee, where we port bills out 11 of the 12 last year, not a single one was brought to the floor of the Senate. We've done three bills. We're trying to go to conference on them. They're blocking that. So now we bring up the defense appropriations bill, something that should get 80 votes on the floor of the Senate. (02:51–03:14)

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Asserts that when Democrats had the majority, they did not bring any appropriations bills to the Senate floor.

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