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Pete Buttigieg: “There was one, an entire state legislature spirit spent days…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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Published | Video Starts at 37:24

And when you talk about all these bills that have been filed, I can't help but notice that they are often filed as a sort of solution in search of a problem. There was one, an entire state legislature spirit spent days or weeks debating a bill that would have applied to one athlete. And at a time when a lot of folks are seriously weighing whether they have to cancel their health insurance because their premiums went up and it's the same as … (37:24–37:33)

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Asserts that a state legislature spent significant time on a bill affecting only one athlete.

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