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On the recordApril 6, 2022
I had spent thirty years in a courtroom before coming to Congress, and, you know, in a courtroom, the rules are so much different than the rules for ethics for Members of Congress.
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G.K. Butterfield
Democratic · North Carolina

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Butterfield compares courtroom rules to Congressional ethics rules.

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