Mr. Speaker, thank you so much for spending the time and to joining us this morning. Maria, great to be with you as always. The long national nightmare is finally over. We're so grateful that Republicans stood together and faced down the Democrats. The whole thing was foolish and utterly pointless. As you know, Maria, they got nothing out of that political stunt other than imposing all that pain on the people. (00:39–00:47)
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