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Sheldon Whitehouse: “With respect to delay for delay's sake, when a judge finds that the emails can be made available and the judge finds…”

On the recordFebruary 16, 2017
With respect to delay for delay's sake, when a judge finds that the emails can be made available and the judge finds today that the emails can be made available by Tuesday and the attorney general has kept them bottled up for more than 750 days, it would seem that the accusation that delay for delay's sake does not belong with the Democratic minority on this issue. Would it not be a badge that would fit rather well on the attorney general from Oklahoma?
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island
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Feb 16, 2017

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