Tom Harkin: “Sometimes--I am not mentioning any names--sometimes we talk with…”

On the recordSeptember 28, 2000

Sometimes--I am not mentioning any names--sometimes we talk with colleagues about the rules. There is kind of a smirk: Oh, yes, we have business to do around here. And there is sort of--I detected it lately--there is sort of: ``Well, the rules are the rules, but if we have the votes, we don't care.'' That is a terrible attitude. As the Senator from West Virginia said, it really returns us to the Dark Ages when we were a lawless, ruleless society.

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Tom Harkin

Democratic · Iowa

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Discussing the importance of adhering to rules in the Senate.

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