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On the recordNovember 29, 2012
Oh, I did not state that correctly. I believed, and I am now wrong, that there would be a time agreement on each amendment that we would attempt to arrive at. That is not what this says. This provides, and I am going to read it again, and I did not listen to my own reading--that at 9:30, following the prayer tomorrow, the Senate proceed to votes in relation to the amendments in the order listed and that there be 2 minutes equally divided prior to each vote; and there be no amendments in order to the amendments prior to the votes. I think we ought to have more debate on some of these amendments than that. The debates could take place tonight.
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Mike Levin
Democratic · California
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Nov 29, 2012

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