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Elijah Cummings: “We live in United States of America as a democracy. And I'm not be a lawyer, I'm very familiar if there are certain…”

On the recordApril 29, 2015
We live in United States of America as a democracy. And I'm not be a lawyer, I'm very familiar if there are certain steps that we have to go through and all I can do is probably explain to them as best that I can and put it in the lay language what the process is.
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Elijah Cummings
Democratic · Maryland

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Cummings discusses the democratic process and the importance of following legal steps.

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