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On the recordMay 17, 2017
One Senator after another felt compelled to ask the nominees, to ask each of them, if they would put the law and the Constitution and their country ahead of loyalty to the President.
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Sherrod Brown
Democratic · Ohio

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Senator Brown highlights the unusual necessity of questioning nominees' loyalty to the Constitution over the President.

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