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Maxine Waters: “I want to thank you because when I first heard Mr. Scalise start to talk about this issue, I thought, oh my God, we are…”

On the recordMarch 1, 2022
I want to thank you because when I first heard Mr. Scalise start to talk about this issue, I thought, oh my God, we are going to have bipartisan support for childcare, and then he went into this political argument about math.
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Maxine Waters
Democratic · California

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Waters expresses disappointment over Scalise's shift from bipartisan support to a political argument.

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