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Elissa Slotkin: “So what did you do? I understand it is complicated, we have a big bureaucratic system. When you saw those pictures of…”

On the recordMarch 5, 2019
So what did you do? I understand it is complicated, we have a big bureaucratic system. When you saw those pictures of babies in cages, what did you do?
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Elissa Slotkin
Democratic · Michigan

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Slotkin questions Secretary Nielsen about her response to family separations at the border.

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