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Tom Harkin: “I wish to propound a question. Under the Constitution then, under the clause that each body can establish its own rules…”

On the recordJanuary 5, 1995
I wish to propound a question. Under the Constitution then, under the clause that each body can establish its own rules, inquiry: Can the Senate establish a rule that is clearly in contradiction to the Constitution of the United States?
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Questioning the Senate's authority to establish rules that contradict the Constitution.

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