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Ron Wyden: “No Senator who believes that individual rights are reserved to the people and not to Government can support this…”

On the recordMarch 19, 2017
No Senator who believes that individual rights are reserved to the people and not to Government can support this nomination.
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

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Wyden expressed that supporting the nomination contradicts individual rights.

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