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Danny Davis: “It makes no sense, for example, to require IRS witnesses to submit to transcribed interviews with the Oversight…”

On the recordJuly 29, 2014
It makes no sense, for example, to require IRS witnesses to submit to transcribed interviews with the Oversight Committee first and then force them to appear again before the Ways and Means Committee.
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Danny Davis
Democratic · Illinois

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Davis criticizes the redundancy in requiring IRS witnesses to testify multiple times.

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