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Tammy Baldwin: “I persuaded 12 Republicans to join all 50 Democrats, and we…”

Featuring: Tammy Baldwin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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INTERVIEW: One on one with Senator Tammy Baldwin

Published | Video Starts at 11:22

And the answer in the Respect for Marriage act is it would not affect religious liberties at all, either expanding or contracting them. So when we made that clear in the legislation, a number of others came on board. The end. I persuaded 12 Republicans to join all 50 Democrats, and we passed the Respect for Marriage act into law. And now that happened. Did that happen after the midterm elections? It did. We were working on it prior to the midterm elections. (11:22–11:30)

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