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Eric Holder: “I am offering to sit down with the Speaker, with the Chairman, with you, whoever, to try to work our way through this in…”

On the recordJune 11, 2012
I am offering to sit down with the Speaker, with the Chairman, with you, whoever, to try to work our way through this in an attempt to avoid a constitutional crisis.
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Eric Holder
Democratic · District of Columbia

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Holder expresses willingness to negotiate to prevent a constitutional crisis.

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