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On the recordOctober 21, 2015
There was clearly inadequate security, but the focus there was not on partisanship, not on embarrassing the Reagan administration, but on actually figuring out what happened and how we can better protect Americans.
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Tammy Duckworth
Democratic · Illinois

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Duckworth contrasts past investigations with the current partisan focus of the committee.

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