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Brian Schatz: “We're not going to get 60 votes for anything and replace a progressive California law, however flawed you may think it…”

On the recordSeptember 25, 2018
We're not going to get 60 votes for anything and replace a progressive California law, however flawed you may think it is, with a non-progressive Federal law.
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Brian Schatz
Democratic · Hawaii

Editor's note · Context

Emphasizing the difficulty of passing a federal law that overrides California's privacy law.

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