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On the recordDecember 6, 2017
In 1943, we would have never allowed a member of Congress to take their oath on 'Mein Kampf', or someone in the 1950s to swear allegiance to the communist manifesto. Congress has the authority and should act to prohibit Ellison from taking the congressional oath today.
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Roy Moore
Alabama

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Roy Moore expresses his opposition to Congressman Keith Ellison taking an oath on the Koran.

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