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Matt Cartwright: “A splinter group, the right wingers, actually it was 11 of…”

Featuring: Matt Cartwright, Democratic | Former U.S. House, Pennsylvania, District 8

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MATT CARTWRIGHT

Published | Video Starts at 23:03

We just spent a week in Washington where we were supposed to be voting on bills and debating them and amendments and things like that. Nothing happened because A splinter group, the right wingers, actually it was 11 of them, refused to pass [the rule]. Before every substantive bill comes up for a vote in the House, there are procedural votes called rules. (23:03–23:12)

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Asserts that 11 right-wing Republicans refused to pass a procedural rule in the House.

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