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Markwayne Mullin: “The only thing we're asking them to do is reopen the…”

Featuring: Markwayne Mullin, Republican | U.S. Senate, Oklahoma

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SEN. MULLIN: 'They're using American people for leverage.' | America's Newsroom

Published | Video Starts at 01:11

So we're not talking about. Dana. Policy. There's no policy discussion here. This is all about a leverage point for political purposes. And that's really hard to negotiate on. The only thing we're asking them to do is reopen the government on a clean CR that Chuck Schumer wrote when he was leader of the Senate back in September. where not asking them to vote on anything they haven't voted for before either. They voted on this in September, they passed it. They voted for it. (01:11–01:21)

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Asserts that Republicans are asking Democrats to reopen the government with a clean Continuing Resolution (CR) written by Chuck Schumer.

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