Texas Senator Ted Cruz took to the Senate floor
to offer four unanimous consent requests to follow the lead of the
House of Representatives and provide funding for veterans’ benefits, the
NIH, the National Guard, and national parks.
Senate Democrats blocked all four requests. The Senator noted, “We are
in a shutdown because President Obama and the Majority Leader of this
body want a shutdown, because they believe it is in the partisan
interests of their party to have a shutdown. Four times, the House of
Representatives has compromised. Four times, the House of
Representatives has endeavored to meet a middle ground, and four times
the Majority Leader and every Democrat in this body has said no, we will
not talk, we will not compromise, we will not have a middle ground."
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