The long national nightmare is almost coming to an end now. The beginning of the end. As I said this morning in my press conference, it was long overdue. And The irony is, Jake, it really was a shutdown about nothing. I mean, what we're voting on is effectively exactly what we offered them several weeks back. We've added some appropriations bills now, which we're in favor of because it's getting us back to the regular order. (00:23–00:32)
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Asserts that the government shutdown was unnecessary and the current vote is on the same terms previously offered.
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