Mr. Doyle, thank you so very much. The Republican shutdown has to end. It has to end, and how correct you were about the negotiations just this evening. They put a proposal on the floor to create some sort of a negotiating committee that did not have all of the issues before them, as you so correctly pointed out, only their set of issues were to be allowed to be discussed by that negotiating committee, none of the issues that we care about on the Democratic side. That's hardly a negotiating opportunity. I now yield to the gentleman from the great State of New Jersey (Mr. Pascrell).
John Garamendi: “Mr. Doyle, thank you so very much. The Republican shutdown has to end. It has to end, and how correct you were about the…”
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