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Rick Scott: “Most people work 40 hours a week and that's five days a…”

Featuring: Rick Scott, Republican | U.S. Senate, Florida

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Sen. Scott on the future of the Senate

Published | Video Starts at 09:21

… saying if Americans work five days a week, why can't the Senate just for folks who maybe haven't checked out your post today, what's the message there? It's very simple. Most people work 40 hours a week and that's five days a week. We don't. We come up here on Mondays. We start work at 5:30. We are done at 1:45 on Thursdays. So we ought to work five days a week. (09:21)

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Asserts that the Senate does not work a full five-day, 40-hour workweek.

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