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Ron Johnson: “Last Thursday I went to the floor to, you know, ask them to…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Published | Video Starts at 06:59

Tell us the situation on the ground there in D.C. sir. Well, Tony, hope you're doing well, but you're embellishing. It's, it's only been a dozen times that they've down the House CR but yeah, Last Thursday I went to the floor to, you know, ask them to just vote cloture on a bill that would pay the people that we're forcing to work. And Chris Van Hollen came the floor and did a unanimous consent request on what he called the true Shutdown Fairness Act. Mine was called the Shutdown Fairness Act. (06:59–07:09)

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Asserts that Ron Johnson asked for a cloture vote on a bill to pay government workers during the shutdown.

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