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Senate Republicans are increasingly worried about a new potential nightmare on their near-term horizon: the specter that Democrats will force a preelection government shutdown by refusing to vote for a short-term funding bill in September. And, naturally, Republicans fear that voters will punish them in November for the mess. Senate Majority Leader John Thune has been discussing this dystopian possibility with some of his members; the topic was also broached in a member policy meeting before the senators fled town for the July Fourth recess.
