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Tom Cole: “Those things would be immune from a shutdown until the…”

Featuring: Tom Cole, Republican | U.S. House Oklahoma, 4th Congressional District

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Speaker Johnson and House Leadership Hold Press Conference on Day 8 of Government Shutdown

Published | Video Starts at 05:24

Those negotiations have gone very well. We're prepared pretty quickly to close once the government's reopened. We could get at least three bills done. The president could sign them in. Those things would be immune from a shutdown until the following September 30th. Then we'd pick another group of three or four bills that we would do in cooperation with our Democratic colleagues and start working on that. So the process honestly was moving along pretty well. (05:24–05:29)

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Asserts that the completed bills would prevent a shutdown until the next fiscal year.

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