Does the Senator feel that with the House majority leadership taking a clear and strong position against supplemental appropriations for this purpose, is the Senator about to tell me that three-fifths of the House would vote to waive it, with the Republican majority over there against such a waiver?
Questioning the likelihood of House support for supplemental appropriations.
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