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Elizabeth Warren: “As painful as it is to have arbitrary rules, sometimes those arbitrary rules really serve an important function.”

On the recordJanuary 23, 2018
As painful as it is to have arbitrary rules, sometimes those arbitrary rules really serve an important function.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Warren defends the necessity of certain rules in military personnel management.

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