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On the recordApril 1, 2009
In a true spirit of bipartisanship, I would like to remind the Committee that President George W. Bush, in his first Inaugural Address, spoke very strongly against racial profiling as an unsatisfactory police technique.
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John Conyers
Democratic · Michigan

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Conyers highlights Bush's opposition to racial profiling in a bipartisan context.

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