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Ron Johnson: “We passed [Preventing Government Shutdown Act] twice out of…”

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

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Western Wisconsin Journal: Senate Candidate Ron Johnson

Published | Video Starts at 03:31

Full faith and credit to make sure that we would never threaten to default on our debt. Preventing government Shutdown Act. That's something as a chairman of my committee, We passed [Preventing Government Shutdown Act] twice out of my committee. Completely bipartisan bill. All that does is if you are so dysfunctional you don't have an appropriation for either the whole of government or agency, you don't shut it down. (03:31–12:06)

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Asserts that the Preventing Government Shutdown Act was passed twice in committee with bipartisan support.

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