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Tom Harkin: “The point is, not everyone is here today, Monday, not even on your side or our side, but everyone is going to be here…”

On the recordSeptember 8, 2003
The point is, not everyone is here today, Monday, not even on your side or our side, but everyone is going to be here tomorrow; so that Thursday night there was sort of a gentlemen's agreement... that we would set a time on Tuesday to vote on this. That is the kind of thing we work out here. If I could just finish? Then, when we come in Friday, I find that has been yanked away from us, that we can't have a time agreed upon to vote. That is when this Senator decided, I am going to lay down my amendment and I am going to object to going off it until we get some kind of agreement worked out. It is not blackmail. It is just trying to move this process forward.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa
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Discussing the scheduling of a vote on an amendment during Senate floor debate.

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