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Scott Fitzgerald: “It's another reason many of us were kind of perplexed by the…”

Featuring: Scott Fitzgerald, Republican | U.S. House of Representatives, Wisconsin, District 5

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Rep. Fitzgerald Talks End of the Government Shutdown and Necessity of Healthcare Reforms

Published | Video Starts at 05:44

Are we going to be right back here to these same kind of shutdown talks at that point? You know, so let me back up a little bit and make a point on that, which is It's another reason many of us were kind of perplexed by the idea that Chuck Schumer and the Democrats in the Senate couldn't come up with a handshake agreement behind closed doors. to just say, listen, we'll go out there, we'll vote for this cr. We won't shut down the government, because guess what? We got to do it all again. (05:44–05:57)

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Asserts confusion over Democrats' inability to reach a private agreement to avoid a shutdown.

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