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Alcee Hastings: “Mr. Speaker, I ask the gentleman from New York to look at me: this side of my mouth, that side of my mouth. You are…”

On the recordJune 26, 2002
Mr. Speaker, I ask the gentleman from New York to look at me: this side of my mouth, that side of my mouth. You are talking out of both sides of your mouth. What you are saying is that, on the one hand, you have 160 pages that you passed; and then you say we have no position. You cannot have it both ways.
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Alcee Hastings
Florida

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Criticizing a colleague's contradictory statements during a debate.

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