Mark Pocan: “Nancy Pelosi was the leader at the time.”

“You know, there's 22 committees in Congress, and leadership, essentially, generally is the one who's putting you into committees. And a lot of it is impacted by what region you're from and a lot of things. But Nancy Pelosi was the leader at the time. and I wanted to get on the Appropriations Committee and the top three Committees are the Appropriations Committee, Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce, where more activity happens than maybe some of the other committees.” (22:21–22:24)

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