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Ayanna Pressley: “The reason we could do this unannounced visit today is…”

Featuring: Ayanna Pressley, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, 7th Congressional District

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But I want to say two things. I've said repeatedly that our strategy as a Democratic caucus is litigation, legislation, agitation when necessary, and mobilization. The reason we could do this unannounced visit today is because of litigation initiated by our task force and because that the court sided with Joe Negus, Congressman Negus and the rest of us who signed on to that. That is why we could do this today. So although the work of litigation can move more slowly than we would like, that is why we could do this unannounced visit to the. (08:26–08:48)

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Asserts that the unannounced visit was possible due to litigation and a court siding with Congressman Negus and others.

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