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On the recordFebruary 25, 2015
We haven't named them yet. That is the approach here. If they don't get their exact way, well, fine, we are not going to keep the Nation safe. I mean, that just doesn't make sense in any deliberative body, like we all grew up thinking that Congress was the lofty deliberative body. That just doesn't make sense, that kind of reasoning. {time} 1815
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Jared Polis
Democratic · Colorado

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