02/15/2011
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"I don't want a shutdown. I think a shutdown is bad for millions of people who depend on government services, certainly bad for federal employees."
"Let me repeat. He does not have the votes. He knows he does not have the votes. Why do you go forward and losing rather than sitting down and negotiating an agreement in a bipartisan way?"
"Mitch McConnell does not have 60 votes. And if he goes forward tonight at 10:00 as I understand he will, he will lose."
"The option that he has now is to say, OK, I don't have the 60 votes, let us sit down and negotiate, let us work in a nonpartisan way to address the crisis facing this country."