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Elijah Cummings: “Finally, thank God, we are dealing with is not as a Black/White thing. Not as a rural/city thing. None of that. We are…”

On the recordMarch 6, 2019
Finally, thank God, we are dealing with is not as a Black/White thing. Not as a rural/city thing. None of that. We are dealing with as a human problem.
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Elijah Cummings
Democratic · Maryland

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Cummings calls for viewing the drug crisis as a universal human issue.

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