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Jon Ossoff: “If David Perdue had been in Congress in 1964, 1965, he would have been filibustering the Civil Rights Act and the Voting…”

On the recordDecember 6, 2020
If David Perdue had been in Congress in 1964, 1965, he would have been filibustering the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
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Jon Ossoff
Democratic · Georgia

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Ossoff criticizes David Perdue's stance on voting rights.

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