John Cornyn: “The most important piece of legislation we passed was the…”

“What do you think has been the best legislation that you've been a part of and that the federal government has had a hand in? Well, I would say The most important piece of legislation we passed was the National Defense Authorization act, which is as a 60 year tradition of being passed on a broad bipartisan basis. And this year wasn't any exception. I know the nature of news is you guys report it when we disagree with each other, but when we agree, it's obviously less newsworthy.” (00:19–00:30)

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