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Jim DeMint: This bill has not been vetted properly by a committee, and again, it undermines our whole system of the rule of law. So…

On the recordApril 19, 2011
This bill has not been vetted properly by a committee, and again, it undermines our whole system of the rule of law. So I am compelled to object.
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Jim DeMint
Republican · South Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Senator DeMint explains his objection to a bill related to the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

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