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Elijah Cummings: “We do not teach our children to lie. We do not teach them to disobey--we do not teach them to disobey the law.”

On the recordJune 25, 2019
We do not teach our children to lie. We do not teach them to disobey--we do not teach them to disobey the law.
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Elijah Cummings
Democratic · Maryland

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Cummings stresses the importance of integrity and obedience to the law.

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