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Elizabeth Warren: “It is statutory language that you are asking.”

On the recordMay 23, 2011
It is statutory language that you are asking.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Warren clarifies that the language in question is statutory.

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