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On the recordSeptember 24, 2024
It's this type of racist intolerance, this divisive rhetoric that must stop. It's why I have filed a resolution to censure Representative Higgins.
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Steven Horsford
Democratic · Nevada

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Horsford discusses the need to censure Higgins for his racist comments and the impact of such rhetoric on Haitian Americans.

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