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GOP Senators Anxious to Hit the Campaign Trail

GOP Senators Anxious to Hit the Campaign Trail

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Congress is struggling to find agreement on a continuing resolution to fund the federal government past the end of the fiscal year on September 30th, and that could keep members in Washington longer than they had planned.

A number of polls shows control of the Senate could be up for grabs in November.
South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds says they are all aware of that…..

Rounds says the Presidential campaign has a lot of influence on the control of the Senate…..

Rounds says it doesn’t look like either party will come close to the sixty votes needed to overcome filibusters.

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