Listen here to The Flag’s Scott Hennen’s conversation with North Dakota United States Senator Kevin Cramer on What’s On Your Mind
WASHINGTON – The United States Senate has now voted multiple times on measures to end the federal government shutdown.
Each time has failed.
But Senator Kevin Cramer said lawmakers are ‘close to a breakthrough.’
“We need some people to let their guard down a little bit,” he told The Flag’s What’s On Your Mind.
When asked who the ‘people’ are, Cramer said ‘mostly Democrats.’
Cramer doubles down on opposing change to Senate filibuster rule
At a breakfast with President Donald Trump earlier this week, Senator Kevin Cramer said the President asked Republican Senators to change the Senate filibuster rule. As the rule stands now, there needs to be a 60-vote margin.
Cramer opposed the change, and on Friday morning during an interview on The Flag’s What’s On Your Mind, he explained his reasoning.
“For a little state like North Dakota or Minnesota, where you have equal power as a result of the founding fathers’ vision of the Senate, and equal power per state, we’d be giving up a tremendous amount of our leverage,” the Senator said.
Republicans have held the majority in the U.S. Senate for 28 of the last 100 years.
