Who?

Sen. Deb Fischer (R-NE)

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Ask a Pol asks:

Would you support the SAFER Banking Act or have you not looked at it yet?

Key Fischer:

“I haven't seen it,” Sen. Fischer exclusively told Ask a Pol.

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Caught our ear:

Do you have any thoughts on the DEA — Drug Enforcement Administration — moving to reschedule marijuana?

“I don't know,” Fischer told us.

Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Sen. Deb Fischer (R-NE), slightly edited for clarity.

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TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Deb Fischer

SCENE: Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo briefly catches Sen. Deb Fischer before she heads into a meeting with her fellow Republican senators.

Matt Laslo: “How are you, ma’am?”

Laslo says after running up the stairs to greet Fischer on the 2nd floor of the US Capitol.

Deb Fischer: “How did you get up here so fast?”

ML: “I’m good at my job.”

Sen. Fischer laughs.

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ML: “Do you have thoughts on the DEA moving to reschedule marijuana?”

DF: “What?”

ML: “Do you have thoughts on the DEA looking to re-examine the schedule of marijuana? Potentially dropping it from Schedule I?”

DF: “I don't know.”

ML: “Have you looked at the SAFER Banking Act?”

DF: “You know, in Nebraska, there's a petition [to put medical marijuana on the ballot] moving on, so we'll wait. I'm not gonna comment on the action here.”

ML: “But have you looked — would you support the SAFER Banking Act? Or have you not looked at it yet?”

DF: “I haven't seen it.”

ML: “Yeah. That's the one that would allow safe, legal…”

DF: “Yeah.”

ML: “Cool. Preciate ya, ma'am.”

Andrey Beregovskiy and Walken Whalen contributed to this report.

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