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Rand Paul: “My father used to always say there were two things you rarely heard in Washington, and that was either a moral argument…”

On the recordJune 5, 2018
My father used to always say there were two things you rarely heard in Washington, and that was either a moral argument or a constitutional argument.
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Rand Paul
Republican · Kentucky

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Rand Paul emphasizes the rarity of moral and constitutional discussions in Washington.

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