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Graham Platner: “We need a Senate and a Congress that is going to reassert…”

Featuring: Graham Platner, Populist, Progressive | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Maine

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Graham Platner Speaks to PACKED Augusta Crowd

Published | Video Starts at 28:24

We need to get money out of politics. We need to overturn Citizens United States. We need to put a ban on senators and congresspeople trading stocks and bonds because that's just corruption. We need a Senate and a Congress that is going to reassert its authority around war making. because. Because the Constitution was very clear that the power to make war should rest on the shoulders of the bodies that are most directly representative of the American people. (28:24–28:30)

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Asserts the need for Congress to reclaim its constitutional authority over war-making decisions.

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