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Markwayne Mullin: “We're supposed to be doing appropriations.”

Featuring: Markwayne Mullin, Republican | U.S. Senate, Oklahoma

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Published | Video Starts at 00:09

I don't know why that came out that way, but my voice is all messed up, so I guess I'm being all different. We got a lot of stuff going on to wrap up the end of the year, We're supposed to be doing appropriations. The reason why appropriations is very hard to get done, because you got 535 members of Congress, which is 435 House members, and 100 senators that all have an opinion, and they all want something done, which we get. (00:09–00:11)

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Asserts that Congress is currently supposed to be working on appropriations.

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