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Trent Lott: If we could get this done, then we could maybe--I have always maintained that the only way you get these things moving…

On the recordJuly 11, 1996
If we could get this done, then we could maybe--I have always maintained that the only way you get these things moving is to get them moving one at a time. If we get a little reciprocity, we get a little something here and something there, then we can get this locomotive moving again.
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Trent Lott

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Discussing strategies for legislative progress.

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