… just keep the lights on, keep government operating, keep everyone in legislative session so we could do all the necessary policy disputes and debates that we had ahead of us. This was a bipartisan agreement, by the way, the Democrats and Republicans in the House, the appropriators who are working on the government funding bills, said we need seven more weeks. We need to go to November 21, and let's just do a simple stopgap measure, totally clean. We didn't put any Republican priorities on it. No poison pills, no gimmicks. (03:54–04:04)
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Asserts that the continuing resolution was a bipartisan agreement for a seven-week extension.
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