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Debbie Dingell: “It is not perfect; no law is. The last perfect law was probably the Ten Commandants; and in today's Congress, those…”

On the recordJuly 28, 2015
It is not perfect; no law is. The last perfect law was probably the Ten Commandants; and in today's Congress, those probably would not be perfect, either.
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Debbie Dingell
Democratic · Michigan

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Debbie Dingell acknowledges the imperfections of laws, referencing the Ten Commandments.

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