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Jon Hansen: “We put a bunch of pressure on Congress to get that provision…”

Featuring: Jon Hansen, Republican | Speaker of the South Dakota House of Representatives

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KOTA's Political Pulse #18 - South Dakota Rep. Jon Hansen

Published | Video Starts at 20:20

… that would have completely overrode our landowner protections that we fought so hard to put in in South Dakota. We were very concerned about that. So we raised the alarm. We put a bunch of pressure on Congress to get that provision taken out of the bill. that ultimately was taken out of the bill. I and a couple others went to Washington to talk to some of the members of Congress to make sure that it stayed out of the bill, and it did. (20:20–20:25)

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Asserts that pressure was applied to Congress to remove a provision from the Big Beautiful Bill.

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