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John Thune: “The manager's amendment that he put forward, there were 18…”

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But, you know, I think we're, we're doing our best here to try and come up with a bill that is bipartisan. If you saw the, The manager's amendment that he put forward, there were 18 Democrat bills in there, 16 Republican in the manager's amendment. Chairman's tried really hard to make this a bipartisan bill and a bipartisan process. I just don't think we ought to let this issue get in the way of advancing what is a lot of stuff that a lot of us agree with. (03:06–03:15)

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