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On the recordApril 13, 2018
Mr. Speaker, when the President ran for office, he ran on a saying: drain the swamp. Does this look like you are draining the swamp? Does the list of people and the list of corruption we have seen, does that look like you are draining the swamp? No, it seems like you are just adding it. All you are doing is adding more and more to the culture of corruption and creating that swamp. If the President was serious about it, if my colleagues were also serious about draining the swamp, then they need to keep their own party and their own Cabinet members in check because, right now, that is not happening.
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Rubén Gallego
Democratic · Arizona

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