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Mark Pocan: “A provision all the statutes talked about the president and…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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With Liberty and Justice for Some Ep. 65 – Just what is the 25th Amendment with Norman Ornstein

Published | Video Starts at 30:20

Now, that's a great point, because I know a session or two ago we saw in the statute and we passed it when the Republicans were in charge. I believe they're in charge when we did it. A provision all the statutes talked about the president and their wife, and nowhere did it ever assume we could have a woman or a gay man be president. And we were able to get that cleaned up. But all these other things, I mean, who would have thought a president would make money while in office or do some of the other things that we've just seen. (30:20–30:29)

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Asserts that statutes previously assumed only a male president with a wife.

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