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On the recordDecember 9, 2016
So I will continue to speak, and when I am done, I am done. It may be soon because I am getting a little tired, but I will keep talking for a while. I say to everybody that I am sorry, but don't drop a midnight rider on a beautiful bill that I worked on for 2 years with my colleague Senator Inhofe, and then say: I am really annoyed because she is talking too much. I am sorry. I apologize, but I am going to talk until I am done, and the Senator from Washington is going to talk until she is done. Don't drop a midnight rider and destroy the fishing industry and say that Congress will no longer have the ability to authorize the building of dams. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Washington.
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Barbara Boxer
Democratic · California

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