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Ron Johnson: “Congress doesn't write laws anymore. They write frameworks.”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Published | Video Starts at 00:16

It's, you know, winning and losing is just kind of an odd concept and you're just trying to improve things. How do you teach more? How do you teach better? How do you teach it easier? Congress doesn't write laws anymore. They write frameworks. It's one of the ways Congress has just offloaded accountability. I mean, the human toll, the economic devastation, what we've done to our kids, I don't think anybody could take a look at that. (00:16–00:19)

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Asserts that Congress no longer writes detailed laws but instead creates frameworks.

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