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Ruben Gallego: “All year, Republicans have been passing different pieces of…”

Featuring: Ruben Gallego, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Arizona

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Published | Video Starts at 02:48

Are the people that are in charge of this right now. The Republicans will say, like, well, we need 60 votes from Democrats to get this passed. All year, Republicans have been passing different pieces of legislation and overcoming and pushing through all the filibuster rules and all the rules to pass things that they want. Now, what they don't want to do is fund government and deal with what fundamental problem that we're all very worried about. (02:48–02:58)

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Asserts that Republicans have been passing legislation by overcoming filibuster rules.

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