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Virginia Foxx: “These virtual events undermine what our Founders intended when they created our representative Republic.”

On the recordJune 21, 2020
These virtual events undermine what our Founders intended when they created our representative Republic.
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Virginia Foxx
Republican · North Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Foxx criticizes virtual committee hearings as contrary to congressional tradition.

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