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Stephen Lynch: “On Tuesday, there was a compromise proposal brought forward…”

Featuring: Stephen Lynch, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, 8th Congressional District

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Congressman Stephen F. Lynch on DHS Funding (3/27)

Published | Video Starts at 01:20

This is all in spite of the fact that Democrats and Republicans have basically agreed that they should be paid. On Tuesday, there was a compromise proposal brought forward by some Republicans in the Senate to authorize the payment of TSA screeners. They brought that proposal to the President. Unfortunately, they. They were not successful. The President flatly refused to consider. He said no deals with Democrats, which caused one Republican senator to say, it could have worked. (01:20–01:30)

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Asserts that a compromise proposal was made by Republicans in the Senate to pay TSA screeners.

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