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Steny Hoyer: “It wasn't fine. It clearly was a quid pro quo. It didn't need to be stated this is the quid and that's the pro.”

On the recordOctober 16, 2019
It wasn't fine. It clearly was a quid pro quo. It didn't need to be stated this is the quid and that's the pro.
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Steny Hoyer
Democratic · Maryland

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Hoyer asserts that the president's actions constituted a clear quid pro quo.

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