Dick Durbin: Cable News Viewers Should Demand Refunds When They See Senate ‘Doing Nothing’ on C-SPAN

On Meet The Press today, Senators John Kyl and Dick Durbin discussed the START treaty and its slow progress in the Senate. Durbin went so far as to say that people who pay for cable news should ask for refunds when they watch C-SPAN and see nothing happening.

“People across America who subscribe to cable [should] ask for refunds when they turn on CSPAN and see the Senate day after day doing nothing, lurching from filibuster to filibuster. Let’s be reasonable, constructive, bipartisan. We can get these things done. Let’s roll up our sleeves and do it. Senator Kyl has raised legitimate issues. The fact is we can do all of the things he mentioned, debate them and vote on them in a responsible way before we break for Christmas. to do otherwise is really to create a dangerous situation…To ignore and push aside the START treaty at this moment does not help our relationship with Russia in this critical issue of an Iranian nuclear program,” Durbin said.

Watch the video below.

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