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On the recordFebruary 25, 2013
Was the creation of the leadership group, was its purpose originally, or has it ever been used in the way that the Republican leadership has chosen to use it, wherein the Department of Justice declines to continue defending a particular law and the House has substituted itself as an intervenor?
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Democratic · Florida

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Wasserman Schultz questions the purpose of the leadership group's creation and its use in legal matters.

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