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On the recordDecember 7, 2021
I would like to address the Chair with a question to the Senator from Illinois. I appreciate those comments. I would observe that since that day, we have not had a similar circumstance in which any Republican wishing to speak was cut off in a markup. Can we simply have a commitment that that will not happen again in the future, as it hasn't happened in the last 9 months? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Illinois.
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Tom Cotton
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