We're not going to have the Coast Guard, tsa, other essential functions of the government shut down as the Democrats in Congress engineered already three times in this Congress. They [Democrats] engineered the longest shutdown in US History and then beat their own record in this Congress. So for about 120 calendar days they shut the government down. We're not going to do that. So House Republicans are in charge here and we're continuing to do the grown up thing and make sure we get the job done. (00:38–00:45)
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Asserts that Democrats were responsible for the longest government shutdown in U.S. history and surpassed it in the current Congress.
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