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Henry Hyde: “I think that is, indeed, unfortunate, because I was going on to talk about how we have abdicated our constitutional…”

On the recordDecember 1, 1997
I think that is, indeed, unfortunate, because I was going on to talk about how we have abdicated our constitutional duties to an unelected prosecutor, how we have released thousands of pages that none of us in good conscience can say that we have read.
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Henry Hyde
Illinois
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Dec 1, 1997

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