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Ken Buck: “If you give up your position early on in that negotiation, you don't have a compromise anymore, you have a capitulation.…”

On the recordOctober 2, 2023
If you give up your position early on in that negotiation, you don't have a compromise anymore, you have a capitulation. And we can't afford that.
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Ken Buck
Republican · Colorado

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Ken Buck emphasizes the importance of maintaining negotiating positions to achieve true compromises in legislation.

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