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No Option Is Off the Table

Mueller’s report is not the end of the story. It is a road map to guide Congress’s next steps.
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Growing up in northern New York, a land of harsh and snowy winters, summer days were a gift to be enjoyed outdoors. The summer of 1974, however, will forever be seared in my memory as the summer we spent glued to the news. The entire country was riveted by the Watergate drama unfolding in Washington, eager to learn the truth and reclaim our government as a beacon of hope and opportunity rather than a den of corruption and opportunism.

Those of us who came of age during the Watergate

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