Washington (CNN) Sen. Rand Paul says he proposed a compromise to Democrats to re-open the federal government, but was rejected. The Kentucky Republican said on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday that he pitched re-opening the government in exchange for allowing Democrats a week of debate on immigration policy. Paul said the idea was spiked. "Now when I presented this to those in the Senate, and Senator (Dick) Durbin (D-Illinois), they were like, 'Oh, no we want guaranteed passage on a must-pass bill.' And it's like, well, nobody gets a guaranteed passage," he said.

Source: CNN January 21, 2018 18:11 UTC