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On the recordJanuary 19, 2016
How can the President and you, the Attorney General representing this administration, say he is committed to using every tool at the administration's disposal to reduce gun violence when his own administrator is not following through with the sentences of criminals with gun-related convictions?
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Richard Shelby
Republican · Alabama

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Questioning the President's commitment to reducing gun violence amidst pardons for gun-related offenses.

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