I hope we will find a way to go through this. I realize we have issues of the minimum wage and others. We ought to vote them up, vote them down, whatever is necessary. I advise both leaders, I think we have put together a good, bipartisan, compromise package that could be the basis of final conference action and, if it were, would be signed by the White House.
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