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Don Young: “That's hard to do. I would suggest respectfully, again, let's keep our facts straight. Every one of you in this room…”

On the recordJune 12, 2007
That's hard to do. I would suggest respectfully, again, let's keep our facts straight. Every one of you in this room, maybe, six or eight people, never voted for the bill that you are talking about. But you voted for it four times.
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Don Young
Republican · Alaska

Editor's note · Context

Addressing inaccuracies in statements made by colleagues regarding voting on a bill.

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