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Richard Blumenthal: “Republicans were calling votes again and again on the same…”

Featuring: Richard Blumenthal, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Connecticut

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CT Mirror Presents: "In The Room: A Conversation with US Senator Richard Blumenthal"

Published | Video Starts at 11:52

Those are my words, not yours. So many really terrible images. Yes, but we were stuck. You were stuck. Okay. And the reason we were stuck is that Republicans were calling votes again and again on the same piece of legislation, namely what they called a clean CR. We called it a dirty CR stands for continuing resolution, which was funding to continue the government. Since there was no continuing resolution, the government was shut down. (11:52–12:05)

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