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Mike Lawler: “We have signed discharge petitions that to force those…”

Featuring: Mike Lawler, Republican | U.S. House, New York, District 17

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GOP Rep. Mike Lawler calls Johnson decision to not hold ACA vote "idiotic"

Published | Video Starts at 01:26

We worked in a bipartisan way, a group of us, myself, Brian Fitzpatrick, Jen Kiggins, David Valadao, among others, over the last few weeks to come up with several compromise pieces of legislation. And We have signed discharge petitions that to force those [compromise pieces of legislation] to the floor. And yet on the Republican side, they don't want to bring the bills up. And on the Democratic side, you have Leader Jeffries who doesn't actually want to pass something. (01:26–01:31)

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