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Diana DeGette: “Speaker Johnson apparently doesn't want to give maternity…”

Featuring: Diana DeGette, Democratic | U.S. House, Colorado, District 1

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Congresswoman Diana DeGette Discusses Impact of HHS Layoffs and Medicaid Cuts

Published | Video Starts at 07:24

Well, I think, I mean, I think that of course we were supposed to have a markup of some of these bills tomorrow, but since Speaker Johnson apparently doesn't want to give maternity leave to young congresswomen, he vacated the votes for the rest of the week. and the whole markup got cancelled. So I suppose we'll have that markup and I think people will look at those bills one at a time. (07:24–07:34)

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Asserts that Speaker Johnson canceled votes for the week, affecting maternity leave for congresswomen.

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