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Dick Durbin: “This hearing of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights will come to…”

On the recordDecember 11, 2012
This hearing of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights will come to order.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Durbin opens the hearing on the school-to-prison pipeline.

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