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Jerry Nadler: “As I have said in the past, never in more than 20 years as a Member of this body have I seen a colleague treated as…”

On the recordJanuary 8, 2014
As I have said in the past, never in more than 20 years as a Member of this body have I seen a colleague treated as contemptuously as our colleague from the District of Columbia is being treated today.
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Jerry Nadler
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Nadler criticizes the treatment of Eleanor Holmes Norton in Congress.

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