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WASHINGTON — President Trump personally pressed a key House committee chairman to move quickly on right-to-try legislation, asking for a timeline on the bill’s delivery at a separate White House event on infrastructure Wednesday.

Rep. Greg Walden, who chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said Trump’s question was “How close are you to getting this done?”

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“And I said we’re very close. And we are,” Walden told reporters at the Capitol on Wednesday, after the meeting.

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