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Suzanne Bonamici: “There is a willfulness requirement, so we are not talking about mistakes or even negligence here.”

On the recordApril 26, 2016
There is a willfulness requirement, so we are not talking about mistakes or even negligence here.
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Suzanne Bonamici
Democratic · Oregon

Editor's note · Context

Bonamici clarifies that criminal penalties require willfulness, not mere mistakes.

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