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Elizabeth Warren: “I understood that precedent meant that anybody who had questions for a second round could stay and ask them.”

On the recordJanuary 16, 2017
I understood that precedent meant that anybody who had questions for a second round could stay and ask them.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Senator Warren questions the interpretation of committee precedents regarding questioning.

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