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On the recordJanuary 18, 2017
Well, first of all, two wrongs don't make a right. And I think the Republican leadership had led the Republican Party up here in Congress to basically stone wall everything and stop and block everything. That didn't work well and the country didn't benefit by that. That's not what we were sent here to do.
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Joe Manchin
Democratic · West Virginia

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Senator Manchin discusses the importance of bipartisanship and criticizes Republican obstructionism in Congress.

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