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Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto’s split with fellow Democrats includes her state’s other U.S. senator.

She says negotiation and compromise are still possible, even in these intensely partisan times.

As the partial government shutdown grinds on, with no end in sight, Catherine Cortez Masto stands ready to end it right now.

The lawyerly senator from Nevada is one of just two Democrats to repeatedly vote with Republicans and Maine’s independent senator, Angus King, to have the federal government up and running.

She’s not only bucking her Senate colleagues with her contrarian stance, but also placing herself squarely at odds with the animating impulse of her party’s political base: St

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