Senator Johnson had a bill. Did both of them fail to pass at this point? Have I got that right? Yeah, I mean actually ours didn't even fail to pass. The Republicans refused to hear and let [the bill] to the floor. Instead of debating it and actually putting to a vote, they stopped it altogether. And our bill was actually very clean and simple, which is give everybody, every employee that's a government right now that is not being paid pay while we work this out. (00:19–00:22)
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