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Maxine Waters: “To help buy some time until the opposite side gets its speaker. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.”

On the recordSeptember 30, 2020
To help buy some time until the opposite side gets its speaker. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
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Maxine Waters
Democratic · California
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govinfo.gov
Sep 30, 2020

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