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Jared Polis: “So many of us have made unanimous consent requests. I have asked the gentleman from Alabama how many times we have to…”

On the recordJuly 7, 2016
So many of us have made unanimous consent requests. I have asked the gentleman from Alabama how many times we have to make this motion until the Republicans end their obstructionism. I have not received an adequate answer. I was hopeful that the gentleman from Alabama would have accepted this unanimous consent request by now. I was hopeful that the Chair would have posed a question to him multiple times, rather than accept his very first answer, now that the Democratic leaders and rank-and-file Members have all come forward in support of bringing forward this bill and breaking through the Republican obstructionism. I yield the balance of my time to the gentleman from California (Mr. Thompson).
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Jared Polis
Democratic · Colorado
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Jul 7, 2016

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