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Russ Feingold: I view this issue, at base, as a voting rights question.

On the recordMarch 10, 2009
I view this issue, at base, as a voting rights question.
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Russ Feingold
Democratic · Wisconsin

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Feingold frames Senate appointments as a matter of voting rights.

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