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Byron Donalds: “I turned on the House Financial Services Committee on this…”

Featuring: Byron Donalds, Republican | U.S. House, Florida, District 19

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A Conversation with Congressman Byron Donalds | Ep. 010

Published | Video Starts at 10:07

So I was like, oh, no pressure, you know, let's go do this thing. And so I just started doing a lot of economic research on the economy at the time. The last thing I did was I turned on the House Financial Services Committee on this channel called C Span, which I never watched. And I watched this committee, and I was dumbfounded because I was just like, who are these people? They don't know what they're talking about. I'm working in the real world. (10:07–10:14)

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Asserts that he began watching the House Financial Services Committee on C-SPAN during the financial crisis.

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