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On the recordJune 14, 2021
Do you think it would enable what we would, some would refer to white supremacist groups, domestic terrorist groups here, do you think it would enable them to continue to attack our Capitol and our democracy if we did not hold them accountable?
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Rashida Tlaib
Democratic · Michigan

Editor's note · Context

Tlaib questions the consequences of not holding January 6 perpetrators accountable.

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