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Chuck Schumer: Even the White House saying, ``We will fire whoever did it,'' is not sufficient. If you have a company and someone is…

On the recordSeptember 30, 2003
Even the White House saying, ``We will fire whoever did it,'' is not sufficient. If you have a company and someone is suspected of murder and they say, ``If we find out they are convicted of murder, we will fire them,'' would that be a sufficient enough punishment? Absolutely not. What we have here is an attitude: Let's sweep this under the rug, let's make sure nobody says much about it, and maybe it will go away.
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Chuck Schumer
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Discussing accountability in response to a serious allegation during a Senate debate.

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