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Mark Pocan: “We need to get Somehow up to 60 votes in the Senate.”

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

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Mark Pocan Discusses Impact of Proposed Health Care and Social Program Cuts in Wisconsin Town Hall

Published | Video Starts at 53:09

And you can't do that through reconciliation because it's not fiscal in nature. Has been HR1. We've passed it out of the House twice when we were in charge. But We need to get Somehow up to 60 votes in the Senate. But that would, we would have gone after N. Citizens United. Because that's the thing. It just wasn't according to the court, clear in law. (53:09–53:13)

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