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Russ Feingold: I don't think it's a reasonable approach to statutory interpretation to say that somehow you can import that language…

On the recordOctober 12, 2009
I don't think it's a reasonable approach to statutory interpretation to say that somehow you can import that language into another amendment that isn't there and that that isn't a prohibition.
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Russ Feingold
Democratic · Wisconsin

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Feingold critiques the interpretation of statutory language in a legal context.

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