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Bobby Rush: “It is highly unusually and wholly unacceptable that we are now in the month of November and the administration witnesses…”

On the recordNovember 6, 2017
It is highly unusually and wholly unacceptable that we are now in the month of November and the administration witnesses have been allowed to repeatedly thumb their noses at requests made by this subcommittee to get them to come here and to testify before the representatives of the American people.
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Bobby Rush
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Rush criticizes the administration for not sending witnesses to testify before the subcommittee.

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