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Ken Paxton: “Some of the people working for you, didn't really think this…”

Featuring: Ken Paxton, Republican | Attorney General of Texas

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Ken Paxton Testifies At Senate Finance Committee

Published | Video Starts at 55:08

And I found that we had A statute that was similar. A lot of states don't have that protection for their consumers. And initially, for several years, my staff, Some of the people working for you, didn't really think this was a good idea. They told me it was a loser. I always knew it wasn't. And thankfully, some of these people here pushed it forward, and it obviously was not a loser. (55:08–55:13)

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Asserts that some staff initially opposed pursuing the biometric data protection case.

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