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Joe Lieberman: “If we can agree on 60 percent of this bill before us... let us just set aside the 40 percent and let us do the 60…”

On the recordJune 16, 2015
If we can agree on 60 percent of this bill before us... let us just set aside the 40 percent and let us do the 60 percent.
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Joe Lieberman
Independent · Connecticut

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Lieberman refers to Ted Kennedy's approach to bipartisan agreements.

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