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Patty Murray: “If this behavior, kissing and touching women and girls without their consent, happened in a school, would you consider…”

On the recordJanuary 16, 2017
If this behavior, kissing and touching women and girls without their consent, happened in a school, would you consider it a sexual assault?
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Patty Murray
Democratic · Washington

Editor's note · Context

Murray questions DeVos on whether such behavior constitutes sexual assault in schools.

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