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"I'm not aware that we're that close at all," Mr. Menendez said. "This is simple. We should have never had a shutdown."
Two Democrats disagree on when shutdown deal is coming →
"Our Republican colleagues who had their hands on the wheel and drove the car off the cliff into the Grand Canyon and the huge crater, don't want to take responsibility," said New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez, head of the Senate Democrats' campaign arm, on NBC's "Meet the Press."
