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Feb 12, 2020, 7 tweets

House Judiciary Committee is working through a bill that would limit the President’s authority to implement the most recent version of the #TravelBan #NexstarDC

Republican Congressman Doug Collins made the comparison to President Obama’s temporary travel limits- Dems refute Joan saying candidate Trump’s promise to ban all Muslims from entering the US has to be taken into account #NexstarDC

Collins continues, “Its not about the policy, it’s about the President. They don’t like this president #NexstarDC

Partisanship 2020 in a nutshell-There’s a vote happening right now proposed by Republican Congressman Collins to remove Chairman Jerry Nadler’s words from the committee record bc he called President Trump a liar. #Washington

Kyrgyzstan, Eritrea, Nigeria, Sudan, Myanmar, Tanzania -the 6 countries from which travelers will be banned in the latest Trump Administration #TravelBan “This is clearly a Muslim Ban...you may want to pretend it isn’t, but it is.” -Jerry Nadler #NexstarDC

The House Judiciary Committee voted to approve a bill that would effectively strip President Trump of his executive authority to declare a #TravelBan #NexstarDC

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