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Tom Cole: “We had passed legislation, clean legislation, to keep the…”

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

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Rep. Joe Neguse Slams Republicans Who Refused to Work During the Shutdown

Published | Video Starts at 05:27

I mean, I guess this is your position that if the government is shut down, the House of Representatives should not convene. Is that your position? If we can open it by ourselves, which we had done. Sure. We had passed legislation, clean legislation, to keep the government open. You've said that it went to the United States Senate and you wait until they send you something back and do nothing else. That's my point. (05:27–05:33)

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Asserts that the House passed clean legislation to keep the government open.

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