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Mary Gay Scanlon: “I did want to ask unanimous consent, and I am not sure which letter Mr. Perlmutter introduced before, but we do have a…”

On the recordDecember 16, 2019
I did want to ask unanimous consent, and I am not sure which letter Mr. Perlmutter introduced before, but we do have a letter now that has 500 legal scholars who signed on saying that there is grounds for impeachment in our current fact situation.
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Mary Gay Scanlon
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Scanlon references support from legal scholars for impeachment based on current facts.

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