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Tom McClintock: “This is the year you put a dagger in minority rights.”

On the recordDecember 10, 2019
This is the year you put a dagger in minority rights.
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Tom McClintock
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

McClintock warns that the majority's actions undermine minority rights in Congress.

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