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On the recordDecember 10, 2019
So, you know, I think it takes us back to basics again, and the basics being, if it looks like a duck and it swims like a duck and it quacks like a duck, it is probably a duck.
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Mary Gay Scanlon
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Scanlon emphasizes the obvious wrongdoing in the President's actions regarding the July call.

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