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Ryan Clancy: “You need 60 votes in the Senate to get a funding bill over…”

Featuring: Ryan Clancy, Democratic | Wisconsin State Assembly, District 19

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Published | Video Starts at 01:19

The shutdown seems to me to be a classic representation of that. Well, ask yourself, what is it that we need to get out of a shutdown? And You need 60 votes in the Senate to get a funding bill over the finish line. So you need bipartisanship. When this ends in a, it will. That's how it's going to end. But ask yourself what forces in our political system today are going to reward that kind of behavior? (01:19–01:24)

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