On the recordSeptember 18, 2019
I fear that the party of Lincoln that led us in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments... is increasingly sounding like the party of Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis.
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congress.govGerry Connolly: “I fear that the party of Lincoln that led us in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments... is…”
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Connolly criticizes the Republican party's shift away from Lincoln's values towards voter suppression.
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