Political Quotes

On the recordDecember 5, 2011
I have never heard or read about him saying anything about prenatal nondiscrimination in the course of it.
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John Conyers
Democratic · Michigan

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Conyers questions the relevance of Frederick Douglass's name to the bill.

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