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Ron Johnson: “My bill [Shutdown Fairness Act] does not give the president…”

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Published | Video Starts at 07:44

So I mean, you know, I would go ahead and include, I can't speak for the entire conference, but I would include the furloughed workers. And, you know, that was really the only difference. I mean, he misrepresented the fact that said My bill [Shutdown Fairness Act] does not give the president great authority to fire people. It doesn't, it just, you know, follows the Anti Deficiency Act. So again, there's very, very narrow differences. We tried to work it out over the weekend. (07:44–10:27)

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