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Ron Johnson: “They say Washington is dysfunctional. When you're writing…”

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

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Senator Johnson Discusses Immigration Reform on Bloomberg's In the Loop

Published | Video Starts at 05:52

You're going to go to the House and they're going to reject it out of hand. This House is so dysfunctional that when you present it with these omnibus bills, They say Washington is dysfunctional. When you're writing these 1200 page bills, which are almost incomprehensible to read. I mean try reading 1, 1 referring to subsection X, Y, Z of some other statute from, you know, they are incomprehensible. (05:52–06:00)

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