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Jack Kingston: Wait a minute. Reclaiming the time, if I can go on the technicality argument so eloquently demonstrated by my friend…

On the recordMay 12, 1998
Wait a minute. Reclaiming the time, if I can go on the technicality argument so eloquently demonstrated by my friend from Michigan, you said ``every editorial.'' Why, that is not true at all. The editorials in my hometown paper, the editorial that I have somewhere around here from the Washington Post says get over the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Burton). Look at the tapes. So if you want to get into that--
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Jack Kingston
Georgia

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Addressing a point made by a colleague regarding editorial opinions during a debate.

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