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On the recordDecember 14, 2010
It is impossible to do all of the things that the Majority Leader laid out without doing -- frankly without disrespecting the institution and without disrespecting one of the two holiest of holidays for Christians.
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Jon Kyl
Republican · Arizona

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Senator Kyl argues against working through the Christmas holiday.

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