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Jim McGovern: “We are now wasting floor time to basically undo something…”

Featuring: Jim McGovern, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, 2nd Congressional District

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Published | Video Starts at 51:22

He can't keep his word to his own members, can't manage his own conference, can't figure out how to pass a bill and apparently can't keep his story straight between the two groups he was negotiating with. The incompetence takes my breath away. We are now wasting floor time to basically undo something Republicans did last week to unattach an E15 bill from the farm bill. after Republicans had us vote to attach an E15 bill to the farm bill. I mean, you can't make this stuff up. That's what this is all about. (51:22–51:34)

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Asserts that floor time is being wasted to undo a previous Republican action regarding the E15 bill.

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