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On the recordOctober 23, 2017
Do Boris and Natasha operating from the dacha in the outskirts of Moscow, trying to corrupt American democracy... do they have the unfettered First Amendment rights that anybody else does in the United States?
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Gerry Connolly
Democratic · Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Connolly questions foreign nationals' rights to influence American democracy.

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