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John Thune: “We've had now 10 votes on a clean, non-partisan short-term…”

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

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Thune Joins The Briefing with Steve Scully

Published | Video Starts at 01:17

And the way to change that is to open up the government. We'll give the Democrats more opportunities to do that. But We've had now 10 votes on a clean, non-partisan short-term CR to fund the government. and we've picked off I think three Democrats at this point, but we need about five more to get the government opened up again. And yet nothing has budged over the last two plus weeks. (01:17–01:33)

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Asserts that there have been 10 votes on a clean continuing resolution to fund the government.

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