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Mary Peltola: “90% of the work that the House does dies in the Senate.”

Featuring: Mary Peltola, Democratic | Former U.S. House Representative, Alaska At-Large

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Ocean Strategies Interview with Rep. Mary Peltola

Published | Video Starts at 12:01

And one of the things that I've been really becoming more and more aware of, and this was a joke that congressman young had. He said, I'm a Republican, and I, our enemy, aren't Democrats, it's the Senate, because 90% of the work that the House does dies in the Senate. And, of course, he didn't mean our senators, our alaskan senators, but just the hundred members, because so much happens here that doesn't go through there. (12:01–12:06)

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Asserts that a significant portion of House legislation does not pass in the Senate.

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