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Mark Meadows: “If we have no legitimate legislative purpose in investigating a violent insurrection against our own Government, well…”

On the recordDecember 12, 2021
If we have no legitimate legislative purpose in investigating a violent insurrection against our own Government, well, then, we simply have no legitimate legislative purposes at all.
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Mark Meadows
Republican · North Carolina

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Mark Meadows emphasized the importance of investigating the Capitol insurrection.

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