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Ron Johnson: “Had I not forced that 11 hour reading, and I sat on the floor of the Senate, I listened to the entire 11 hours, what we…”

On the recordMarch 5, 2021
Had I not forced that 11 hour reading, and I sat on the floor of the Senate, I listened to the entire 11 hours, what we would have been doing is we would have gone into vote-a-rama last night, no time during the bill, no time to really prepare decent amendments.
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Ron Johnson
Republican · Wisconsin
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msnbc.com

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Ron Johnson defends his tactic of forcing a lengthy reading of the COVID relief bill to delay the voting process.

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