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On the recordDecember 1, 2011
we are going to be making a unanimous consent request. I am not even going to use my 1 minute on this other than to say thanks to everybody who has been so heavily involved, which is just about everybody in this Senate. I want to particularly thank Senator McCain. His staff and my staff have been utterly incredible. We have had hundreds of amendments we had to get through. We have done the best we can, and I want to tell my friends this so we can prepare a path for a unanimous consent agreement. It is not prepared yet, so I cannot read it, but it is going to be something like this. For those amendments which were germane, not because of modification, but were germane--
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Mike Levin
Democratic · California
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Dec 1, 2011

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