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Maxwell Frost: “However, he has engaged in this just extraordinary double negative. That was, it was bad in the last session, and so…”

On the recordMarch 8, 1995
However, he has engaged in this just extraordinary double negative. That was, it was bad in the last session, and so that justifies doing bad things in this session. This is not what his party ran on in November. His party ran on open rules and open process, and now he is trying to justify an extraordinarily closed process that would rewrite 200 years of civil law in this country by saying what was done in the last Congress was terrible; this is not quite as terrible; but we are justified in doing this because of terrible things that were done in the previous Congress.
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Maxwell Frost
Democratic · Florida
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Criticizing a colleague's justification for a closed legislative process.

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