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John Thune: “We've got a bill... that's passed the House, that's sitting…”

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

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Thune Joins Squawk Box on CNBC

Published | Video Starts at 02:38

And they are pandering to the left wing special interest groups out there who have demanded this and demanded this showdown with the President of the United States. And so We've got a bill... that's passed the House, that's sitting at the desk in the Senate. that we could pass today, put it on the President's desk, he would sign it into law and this shutdown whole fiasco ends and people can get back to work and we can start paying the federal employees who are starting to miss paychecks. (02:38–02:42)

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Asserts that a bill to end the shutdown has passed the House and is in the Senate.

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