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Cord Byrd: “I go back to this plain and simple language, Senator. You can argue with me as long as you want to argue, until you are…”

On the recordFebruary 9, 1995
I go back to this plain and simple language, Senator. You can argue with me as long as you want to argue, until you are blue in the face, but your argument does not, in plain, simple English language--and that is your amendment; that is the amendment which you told the voters of Pennsylvania you would support.
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Cord Byrd
Florida

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Addressing a colleague's amendment during Senate debate.

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