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McConnell, Durbin Make Their Case As Shutdown Looms

By Bian Elkhatib

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., criticized Democrats on Friday as the minority party — whose votes are needed on procedural votes to fund the government past midnight — continued to say they would not vote for a bill that didn’t include protections for a group of undocumented immigrants.

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