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Jim Banks: If Congress nominates candidates to the academies, why, why do we have to take race into consideration at all?

On the recordJuly 18, 2023
If Congress nominates candidates to the academies, why, why do we have to take race into consideration at all?
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Jim Banks
Republican · Indiana

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Jim Banks questions the necessity of considering race in academy nominations.

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