On the recordMarch 14, 2017
I led the effort in the Committee and fought on a bipartisan basis with many of my colleagues on the floor to strip that measure from the text before it passed the full Senate.
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Blumenthal discusses his bipartisan effort to remove a harmful provision from the FAA bill.
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