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Gerry Connolly: “We dithered, we kvetched, we wrung our hands, we found all kinds of rationalizations for why we just couldn't bring…”

On the recordSeptember 17, 2014
We dithered, we kvetched, we wrung our hands, we found all kinds of rationalizations for why we just couldn't bring ourselves to do it.
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Gerry Connolly
Democratic · Virginia

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Connolly reflects on Congress's inaction regarding Syria.

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