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John Thune: “This bill passed the House a month ago. It is sitting at the…”

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

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Thune: Democrats Admit They're Allowing Families to Suffer for Political "Leverage"

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… weekend, that enough Democrats will come to their census and deliver the five votes that are necessary to get this bill on the president's desk. Remind everybody, everybody knows it. This bill passed the House a month ago. It is sitting at the desk in the Senate. We can pick it up today, pass it, put it on the president's desk, it will be signed into law. The government reopens today. That's all it takes. (01:47–01:52)

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Asserts that a bill to reopen the government passed the House and is pending in the Senate.

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