Senate Minority Whip Durbin on Shutdown and DACA Agreement
Just before a cloture vote on a continuing resolution to fund the government through February 8, Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) thanked senators for…
Senators Schumer and McConnell on Ending Shutdown
2018-01-22T13:08:32-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/90c/20180122131206001_hd.jpgSenate Minority Leader Schumer (D-NY) announced Democrats would accept Senate Majority Leader McConnell’s (R-KY) proposal to re-open the government until February 8, 2018, in exchange for a Republican promise that if an agreement on immigration wasn’t reached by that day, the Senate would immediately proceed to legislation on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Senator McConnell responded by thanking Senator Schumer and then criticized him for “a strategy to shutdown the government over the issue of illegal immigration.”
Senate Minority Leader Schumer (D-NY) announced Democrats would accept Senate Majority Leader McConnell’s (R-KY) proposal to re-open the government until… read more
Senate Minority Leader Schumer (D-NY) announced Democrats would accept Senate Majority Leader McConnell’s (R-KY) proposal to re-open the government until February 8, 2018, in exchange for a Republican promise that if an agreement on immigration wasn’t reached by that day, the Senate would immediately proceed to legislation on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Senator McConnell responded by thanking Senator Schumer and then criticized him for “a strategy to shutdown the government over the issue of illegal immigration.” close
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