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Tom Carper: “What we have decided to do is to focus on the 80 percent where we agree and come back and focus on the other 20 percent…”

On the recordJuly 26, 2021
What we have decided to do is to focus on the 80 percent where we agree and come back and focus on the other 20 percent some other day.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

Editor's note · Context

Carper discusses the importance of bipartisan agreement, referencing Enzi's approach.

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