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Mark Pocan: “Congress doesn't look like the nation.”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 16:14

David Cicillini, Mark Takano, and I know the three of us at least went down to the district to help him out and it was the Progressive Caucus that backed him because we saw, you know, that he was very talented. And bluntly, Congress doesn't look like the nation. Much of the work you're doing is what we were also concerned about. And we saw Maxwell as a standout. (16:14–16:17)

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Asserts that Congress is not representative of the nation's demographics.

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