Shakedown is when leaders from both parties will call up a corporation president, and say we would like $100,000 or $200,000 or $300,000 or a half a million, and make it very clear to those leaders that they can expect no action on their legislation unless they get it. That is a shakedown. Mr. DeLAY. Would the gentleman like to name Members that do that?
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Twenty thousand shells in Russia, chemical weapons, no bigger than this, they were put in, they almost looked like wine bottles stacked up, building after building.
I would think we would be doing him a hell of a gift to get them out of the country.
We have proven we can do it in the elimination of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons.
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