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On the recordDecember 10, 2019
The President's conduct is precisely the type of threat to our democracy that the Founders feared when they included the remedy of impeachment in the Constitution.
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David Cicilline
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Cicilline discusses the importance of impeachment regarding presidential conduct threatening democracy.

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