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On the recordOctober 16, 2019
And I don't give a damn how you look at it; there are efforts to stop people from voting. That is not right. This is not Russia. This is the United States of America.
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Elijah Cummings
Democratic · Maryland

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Cummings criticized efforts to suppress voting rights in the U.S.

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