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On the recordApril 17, 2012
If we are going to turn these hearings into veritable able kangaroo courts, then we should drop the pretense that we are actually engaged in objective oversight or legitimate fact finding.
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Jerry Nadler
Democratic · New York

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Nadler condemns the committee's hearings as lacking legitimacy.

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