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Paul Coverdell: My point is, how much more bipartisan? We don't see that happening here very often. So the emergency relief and all of…

On the recordJune 9, 1997
My point is, how much more bipartisan? We don't see that happening here very often. So the emergency relief and all of its provisions, the guarantee you talk about to keep the Government from shutting down, was voted for by the leadership, Republican, Democrat, by the majority of both sides of the aisle, and the President says the Congress is playing games with emergency relief? It seems a little incongruous to me.
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Paul Coverdell
Georgia

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Discussing bipartisan support for emergency relief legislation.

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