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Richard Blumenthal: “If existing law, let alone new law, is unenforced, it is dead lettered, it is useless.”

On the recordMarch 17, 2015
If existing law, let alone new law, is unenforced, it is dead lettered, it is useless.
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Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut

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Blumenthal argues for the effective enforcement of existing laws rather than creating new ones.

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