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Greg Ganske: “I appreciate the advice. Let me talk about a parable. There is a book down in the lobby. It is called House Mouse…”

On the recordMay 3, 2000
I appreciate the advice. Let me talk about a parable. There is a book down in the lobby. It is called House Mouse, Senate Mouse. It is a little book that I take to grade schools, usually about third-graders, and I read this story about the House mouse and the Senate mouse in the Congress. They have, for instance, the oldest mouse in the Senate is Senator Thurmouse. Well, let us just talk about this mouse Senate. It seems to me that this report is very similar to what may be going on in the mouse Senate, where senior mouse senators from Rhode Island who tried to work in an independent manner, bipartisan fashion, were ostracized by those other mouse majority senators. Or how about the senior mouse senator from Arizona who tried to work with the junior mouse senator from Illinois.
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Greg Ganske
Republican · Iowa
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Discussing a parable about cooperation in Congress during a speech.

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