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John Thune: “There's about 100 of them that will come through early next…”

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

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John Thune reveals if he's found 5 Democrats who could reopen the government

Published | Video Starts at 08:40

The Senate had become basically a personnel department where we were doing nothing but processing nominations. So we did change the rules in a way that allows us to consider some of these in batches. And There's about 100 of them that will come through early next week on, I think, Tuesday. We're set up to vote to get another 100 of them through. But this is the, this is the new business model for the Democrats in the Senate. (08:40–08:46)

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