What did you make of that, if you will, free market economy rationale at that time and is that still as it stands today? Well, I just disagree with former Speaker Pelosi, but if you look at this and you see the radical left coming out in opposition to my bill that bans members of Congress from trading stock, you wonder if they're doing the bidding of somebody else. There's a lot of questions on the table. This is our opportunity to, to make real and substantive progress. (04:21–04:34)
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