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SD Senator Mike Rounds; GOP Senators Looking for Quick DC Exit

SD Senator Mike Rounds; GOP Senators Looking for Quick DC Exit

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With the passage this week of a major water resources bill, it may set the stage for a quick exit of representatives from Washington.
South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds says with twenty four republican Senators up for re-election, the pressure is on to end the session….

Rounds says democrats in the Senate seem to be in no hurry…..

Negotiations are underway on a continuing resolution that would fund the government beyond the end of the fiscal year on September 30th.

Rounds says democrats are playing politics with that…..

Rounds says there is general agreement that the continuing resolution will run into early December.

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