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On the recordApril 10, 2013
What is worse, this legislation, as I said, has been considered several times before and failed to gain any traction.
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Joe Courtney
Democratic · Connecticut

Editor's note · Context

Courtney notes the repeated failure of the legislation under discussion.

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