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Mark Kelly: “My predecessor, John McCain, took some positive steps in…”

Featuring: Mark Kelly, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Arizona

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Is Nuking Iran an "Illegal Order?" - with Sen. Mark Kelly

Published | Video Starts at 50:33

Citizens United. And just get it all, all the corporate money out, because that would allow us to fix so many problems. There'd be more bipartisanship. Get that, fix that. My predecessor, John McCain, took some positive steps in that, in that direction. With McCain, Feingold got unwound, I think largely because of the efforts of Mitch McConnell over a couple decades. If we could fix that problem, we could solve many others. Now, I'm not here to put you on the spot, Senator, but we recently had Rahm Emanuel on the podcast. (50:33–50:47)

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Asserts that John McCain took positive steps towards campaign finance reform, which were undone largely due to Mitch McConnell's efforts.

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