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Elijah Cummings: “I hope that you took the things that I said in the light that I said them--that I meant them.”

On the recordJuly 28, 2015
I hope that you took the things that I said in the light that I said them--that I meant them.
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Elijah Cummings
Democratic · Maryland

Editor's note · Context

Cummings expresses hope that his comments were understood as intended.

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