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Jeff Flake: If we want small government and we want it to work, let's not conduct it in the middle of the night on the last day of…

On the recordDecember 8, 2006
If we want small government and we want it to work, let's not conduct it in the middle of the night on the last day of session. Let's actually come here in January and say, should we have a different severance package? Should it be different for committee staff? Should it be different for personal staff? But let's do it in the light of day. Let's do it with some kind of deliberation. That is all we are asking. The American people want us to deliberate. They want us to do it in the light of day, not at 11:40 at night, or 11:20 at night. We shouldn't be doing business this way.
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Jeff Flake
Republican · Arizona

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Addressing the need for transparency and deliberation in government decisions.

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