Lloyd Doggett: “There's so much pressure from the growing role of money in…”

“But there's very few people who just do the right thing because it's the right thing to do for your constituents. Unfortunately, there should be more, but it's unfortunately somewhat of a rare commodity. Well, it is a rare commodity. There's so much pressure from the growing role of money in politics. The fact that many of these congressional races. Now, you couldn't win a congressional race with a few hundred thousand. You have to have a few million, maybe many million.” (05:57–06:02)

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