On the recordAugust 1, 1996
I also managed them both, and I spent more hours on the floor of the Senate and more votes occurred than any period in modern history of the Senate. I might say from time to time--you would agree, would you not--that we had thought perhaps that work was all in vain, at least for this year, but, as a matter of fact, in only a year, we have welfare reform doing away with the 60 years when people have been imprisoned by this system. It was all worthwhile.
Said by
Pete Domenici
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