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On the recordDecember 10, 2019
Impeachable offenses, as Alexander Hamilton explained are, and I quote, 'abuses of public trust, injuries done to society itself.'
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David Cicilline
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Cicilline defines impeachable offenses as abuses of power against the public.

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