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On the recordSeptember 18, 2019
I do not take subpoenas lightly and I would not have issued this one had we not sent three letters.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Justifying the issuance of a subpoena for the top negotiator's testimony.

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