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Gerry Connolly: “It ought to trouble a Tea Party panel and a lawyer who represented the ACLU that this committee took upon itself a…”

On the recordFebruary 5, 2014
It ought to trouble a Tea Party panel and a lawyer who represented the ACLU that this committee took upon itself a unique task in voting that a U.S. citizen, irrespective of her views or what you think she did or did not say, to protect herself against self-incrimination, a very sacred principle enshrined in the Constitution of the United States
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Gerry Connolly
Democratic · Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Connolly criticizes the committee's decision to waive a citizen's Fifth Amendment rights.

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