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On the recordDecember 16, 2019
this weekend, Tom Ridge, the former Republican governor of my home State, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the first Homeland Secretary of the United States, Member of Congress, Vietnam vet said that he believed the President's conduct here was an abuse of power to ask a foreign leader for a political favor.
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Mary Gay Scanlon
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Scanlon cites Tom Ridge's view on Trump's conduct as an abuse of power.

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