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Katherine Clark: yesterday Speaker Mike Johnson said that November will be a choice between common sense and crazy, and today he has…

On the recordMarch 27, 2026
yesterday Speaker Mike Johnson said that November will be a choice between common sense and crazy, and today he has proven himself right. This is a battle between common sense and crazy. On the one side, we have a bipartisan bill to reopen TSA, reopen the Coast Guard while we are at war, reopen FEMA ahead of hurricane season, reopen our cybersecurity agency before the FBI gets hacked again, and reopen all the agencies that actually keep people safe. That is common sense. That is what Democrats are advocating for. Crazy is wanting to keep all that shut down, all of it, so that masked ICE agents can keep kicking down doors without warrants, so they can keep committing acts of terror in our communities. House Republicans have the easiest possible path to put people first. Vote for a bill that every Senate Republican voted for this morning. All they had to do was get out of the way, and they couldn't even bring themselves to do it. This is a battle between common sense and crazy, and the American people know which side the Republicans are on, and it is not the side of the people of this country.
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Katherine Clark
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Addressing the need to reopen government agencies during a debate on a bipartisan bill.

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