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John Thune: “It's been a long time since we've enacted under regular…”

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

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John Thune: Chuck Schumer Is 'Willing To Shut The Government Down'

Published | Video Starts at 01:21

As the chair knows, earlier this year we already passed three appropriation bills across the floor of the Senate, something that hadn't been done before the August recess going back as far as 2018, I believe so It's been a long time since we've enacted under regular order appropriation bills. And that, Mr. President, ought to be the goal. The goal here should be to fund the government the way it was intended to be funded through the normal appropriations process. (01:21–01:41)

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Asserts that regular order appropriation bills have not been enacted for a long time.

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