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Mark Pocan: “His fix cost us about $130 million.”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 04:10

Wisconsin has one of the lowest error rates in the nation. And Representative Derek Van Orden from the neighboring district said a puzzling thing, that he fixed something in it to save Wisconsin. Well, His fix cost us about $130 million. Because the fix said. Because we're at about. I think it's 5.1% or maybe up to 6.1, but percent error rate, which is again, one of the lowest in the country. (04:10–04:15)

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