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Carolyn Maloney: “It was bottled up in the Privileges and Elections Committee of the House for about 50 years.”

On the recordOctober 20, 2021
It was bottled up in the Privileges and Elections Committee of the House for about 50 years.
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Carolyn Maloney
Democratic · New York

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Describing the obstruction faced by the women's equality movement in Virginia.

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