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Robert Dornan: “I opened by reading a letter, a speech, that I have been trying to get my hands on for years that Henry Cabot Lodge...…”

On the recordSeptember 12, 1996
I opened by reading a letter, a speech, that I have been trying to get my hands on for years that Henry Cabot Lodge... delivered in New York on December 4, 1954. Henry Cabot Lodge got up and said these words. I think this is why it carried. Duncan Hunter asked for a recorded vote anyway, and I think this is why it carried unanimously. To keep until public law everything I fought for for 20 years here, in generalities, and specifically for the last 3 years, dotting the law, signed by Clinton February 10 of this year, 1996. And it was stripped out at 11:52 at night without a phone call to me to join the conference and fight for it.
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Robert Dornan
Republican · California
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the support for his bill H.R. 4000 and referencing a speech by Henry Cabot Lodge.

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