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Alcee Hastings: The able Chair, who is so articulate and capable, also is the master of immediate revisionist history. As he cites the…

On the recordSeptember 27, 2006
The able Chair, who is so articulate and capable, also is the master of immediate revisionist history. As he cites the whole set of events that have brought us here, he ignores the fact that over the weekend all of the negotiations were with the administration and with the Republican majority. Go to the record from yesterday's Rules hearing, and you will find that Duncan Hunter, the Chair of the Armed Services Committee, said no Democrat was involved in those negotiations. So how disingenuous can you be?
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Alcee Hastings
Florida

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Addressing the lack of Democratic involvement in negotiations during a debate.

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