Tim Kaine: “320,000 federal employees [in Virginia].”

“And I got the White House to guarantee as the last element of the deal to get me on board, that there would be no massive firings, riffs going forward. I have 320,000 federal employees [in Virginia]. in Virginia. There's 2 million statewide. That was enough to get me to yes. And now I'm going to fight like hell to make sure we succeed on the health care vote.” (02:12–02:16)

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