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Virginia Foxx: Mr. Chairman, you said at the beginning immigration policy is not in our committee's jurisdiction and we should not…

On the recordDecember 3, 2019
Mr. Chairman, you said at the beginning immigration policy is not in our committee's jurisdiction and we should not discuss what each administration did or said.
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Virginia Foxx
Republican · North Carolina

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Foxx points out the contradiction in discussing immigration policy despite it being outside the committee's jurisdiction.

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