John Thune: “We for 43 days endured it. The American people had to endure…”

“And Chuck Schumer was taking his orders put, you know, walked us, marched us into this thing. It was totally unnecessary, totally uncalled for, and frankly, unprecedented in historic what they did. You know, and We for 43 days endured it. The American people had to endure it. But if we had caved and given in and rewarded that kind of bad behavior, we would just get more of it. You'd see more and more of that.” (10:34–10:39)

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