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Jamie Raskin: “Are we really going to sit here, 70 Members of the Congress of the United States of America, in 2018 and have a hearing…”

On the recordJune 18, 2018
Are we really going to sit here, 70 Members of the Congress of the United States of America, in 2018 and have a hearing that just repeats the hearings the Senate had yesterday on Hillary Clinton's emails?
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Jamie Raskin
Democratic · Maryland

Editor's note · Context

Raskin questions the relevance of ongoing hearings about Clinton's emails instead of addressing current issues.

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