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Jeff Sessions: “I do not agree with the idea that the bankruptcy legislation that got 83, I believe, votes in the Senate, people like…”

On the recordOctober 19, 2009
I do not agree with the idea that the bankruptcy legislation that got 83, I believe, votes in the Senate, people like Senator Hillary Clinton, who originally opposed it, studied it and voted for it, because they concluded it was a fair piece of legislation.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions defends the bankruptcy legislation supported by Clinton after initial opposition.

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