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On the recordFebruary 26, 2013
I don't think that the Attorney General of the United States can decline to come before this Committee on a subject that is so clearly within our jurisdiction.
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Bob Goodlatte
Republican · Virginia

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Goodlatte asserts the Committee's right to summon the Attorney General.

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