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On the recordOctober 13, 2013
It's been an incredibly productive day after a long, long week. And we feel very good about this. I think the two major focuses were to open up the government again, and then to make sure that we're not defaulting, that we're paying our bills and to get some reasonable amount of time to actually negotiate a long-term budget so we don't lurch from financial crisis to financial crisis.
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Amy Klobuchar
Democratic · Minnesota

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Senator Klobuchar discusses the progress made in bipartisan negotiations to resolve the government shutdown and debt ceiling issues.

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