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Doug Bereuter: It has degenerated into the kind of exaggerated conduct that one would expect to find in an old-fashioned melodrama.

On the recordJanuary 6, 1999
It has degenerated into the kind of exaggerated conduct that one would expect to find in an old-fashioned melodrama.
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Doug Bereuter
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congress.gov
Jan 6, 1999

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Critique of the current State of the Union address atmosphere.

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