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Dana Rohrabacher: I think that is healthy for this body. And I certainly never believed that my colleague, the gentleman from Illinois…

On the recordApril 23, 1997
I think that is healthy for this body. And I certainly never believed that my colleague, the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Hyde] would have personalized it the way the newspaper said it was. After all, it was a comment not about me but about my mother I seem to think. And I am sure that comment would not really have been something that would be characteristic of the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Hyde], who has always kept debates on a very high plain, even though sometimes being called Mr. Periscope is not always the nicest thing in the world, but I did not take offense at that either.
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Dana Rohrabacher
Republican · California

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Discussing the nature of a bipartisan debate and a personal comment made during the discussion.

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