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Greg Casar: “Texas President LBJ signed Medicare and Medicaid and the…”

Featuring: Greg Casar, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 35

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Is Everything Bigger in Texas? | Moments with McClellan | Rep. Greg Casar

Published | Video Starts at 11:06

Texas, Texas. Recent law school graduate who had never taken a case to trial before that one. Roe v. Wade, you know. Yeah, incredible. Texas President LBJ signed Medicare and Medicaid and the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act into law. And so for folks that are watching from red states, look there. It's not. It's pretty recent that actually progressives were able to organize and change things in those states. (11:06–11:12)

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Asserts that President Lyndon B. Johnson, from Texas, signed significant legislation into law.

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