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Eleanor Holmes Norton: I have to ask you, when you say you would like repeal, do you really mean you want no law on the books that went after…

On the recordApril 25, 2017
I have to ask you, when you say you would like repeal, do you really mean you want no law on the books that went after the bad guys so that we could make sure that the good guys weren't, in fact, caught?
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

Editor's note · Context

Norton questions the implications of repealing laws targeting criminal activity.

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