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Yassamin Ansari: “The House was out of session for 53 days.”

Featuring: Yassamin Ansari, Democratic | U.S. House Arizona, District 3

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Rep. Yassamin Ansari Scolds Virgina Foxx on Her 'Eight Weeks of Taxpayer-Funded Vacation'

Published | Video Starts at 00:56

I hope that you all enjoyed yourselves while American families looked at their letters from their health insurance companies, terrified that their insurance premiums were going to double or triple while The House was out of session for 53 days. That is unacceptable. Madam Chair. Now we are back here to vote on a terrible partisan spending bill that will deepen a health care crisis that you did create by first stripping away Medicaid from 15 million people. (00:56–01:00)

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Asserts that the House of Representatives was not in session for 53 days.

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