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I don’t know why anyone would support that bill,
California congressman Pete Aguilar, the House Democratic caucus chair, told reporters during a press conference earlier on Wednesday Funding the government should be a bipartisan effort. But Republicans chose a partisan path, drafting their continuing resolution (CR) without any input, any input, from congressional Democrats,
Schumer said of the Republican-drafted bill, which passed by the House on Tuesday Whether it’s born out of cruelty, cowardice or corruption are all three, the GOP is hell bent on making families at home unsafe,
Our caucus is unified” on such a measure to “keep the government open and give Congress time to negotiate bipartisan legislation that can pass,
Mr. Schumer said in a brief statement from the floor If I listen to our colleagues across the aisle, they claim to have a lot of concern for the federal workers that depend on government funding,
said Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas Instead of writing a bill that gives our communities what they need, they wrote a bill that turns many of our accounts into slush funds,
said Senator Patty Murray of Washington, the senior Democrat on the Appropriations Committee If any of those groups want to shut the government down, I would disagree with them,
There are really only two options,
said Senator Angus King, a Maine independent who caucuses with Democrats That doesn’t mean the Senate shouldn’t be a deliberative body,