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Mark Gordon: “We would not have been a country, we would not have had a constitution, if there wasn’t some understanding that if you…”

On the recordJuly 11, 2026
We would not have been a country, we would not have had a constitution, if there wasn’t some understanding that if you were landlocked, if that is you didn’t have access to the coast, that you couldn’t get your products out of.
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Mark Gordon
Republican · Wyoming

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Explaining the importance of the commerce clause.

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