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Howard Griffith: “When you don't like it, you are going to come back and say: Oh, my gosh, they are sabotaging the intent of the bill.…”

On the recordOctober 23, 2019
When you don't like it, you are going to come back and say: Oh, my gosh, they are sabotaging the intent of the bill. Well, forget the intent. Read the bill. Read the bill. This bill has significant problems. It needs to go back to committee and be worked on some more. I appreciate it, but until this is corrected, I must vote ``no'' to try to protect our election system from having it being taken over by whomever the Attorney General might be.
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Howard Griffith
Republican · Virginia
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govinfo.gov
Oct 23, 2019

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