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Elissa Slotkin: “In the Senate, a group of Democrats and Republicans did what…”

Featuring: Elissa Slotkin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Michigan

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Rep. Slotkin Speaks on House Floor about Bipartisan Immigration Reform

Published | Video Starts at 03:03

The speaker of the House, the speaker of this body, wrote to President Biden personally, saying that if the president wanted more things on Ukraine, it was, quote, dependent on enactment of transformative change to our nation's border security laws. His words. In the Senate, a group of Democrats and Republicans did what people pay them to do, which is sit in a room, negotiate, argue, debate over policy to deal with the extreme pressure on the border. And they came to a solution. Today we got, or yesterday we got our first look at what that proposal actually is. (03:03–03:19)

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Asserts that a bipartisan group in the Senate negotiated policies to address border pressure.

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