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Shelley Moore Capito: “Sometimes big things can happen in lame duck.”

Featuring: Shelley Moore Capito, Republican | U.S. Senate West Virginia

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I think what's going to happen in the election, who knows in five weeks what's going to happen. But I'll go back to what I said originally. We were sent here to do big things. Sometimes big things can happen in lame duck. And so we're banking on it. We're banking on our colleagues seeing what this does for everybody and the bipartisan nature of it. (00:46–00:49)

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Asserts that significant legislative actions can occur during a lame-duck session.

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