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Elijah Cummings: “To say that this hearing is politically tone-deaf is the understatement of the year.”

On the recordJuly 11, 2016
To say that this hearing is politically tone-deaf is the understatement of the year.
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Elijah Cummings
Democratic · Maryland

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Cummings criticizes the timing of the hearing on discriminatory legislation.

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