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Chris Dodd: “I was prepared to stay there all week, as my colleagues know, and announced in advance that would be the case. So for…”

On the recordApril 15, 2010
I was prepared to stay there all week, as my colleagues know, and announced in advance that would be the case. So for the purposes of understanding here, again, that was their decision. I hope we could get to some agreement farther down the road. We agreed to a lot. The bill that was on the table that day for the markup was substantially different than the bill I offered as a discussion draft in November.
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Chris Dodd
Democratic · Connecticut
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govinfo.gov
Apr 15, 2010

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Dodd discusses the markup process and changes to the bill since the previous draft.

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