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Joyce Beatty: “So if they really thought that this was a problem, seems like you would want to be more armed by being in a classified…”

On the recordSeptember 7, 2016
So if they really thought that this was a problem, seems like you would want to be more armed by being in a classified setting where you could get real information.
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Joyce Beatty
Democratic · Ohio

Editor's note · Context

Beatty critiques the Majority's choice of an open hearing instead of a classified one.

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