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Mark Pocan: “We supposedly have a separation of church and state, and we…”

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

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Mark Pocan: Champion of the First Amendment

Published | Video Starts at 25:19

For someone like Betsy DeVos, she has a different agenda. She wants somebody to go to religious schools that discriminate. But again, my oath is to the Constitution. We supposedly have a separation of church and state, and we shouldn't be putting money into programs like that. So it's not just me. Luckily, a lot of people join me in having those fights, but especially with Wisconsin experience where we've seen it very close and up front and seen some of the biggest failures we can go nationally. (25:19–25:25)

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Asserts that funding religious schools violates the separation of church and state.

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