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Dick Durbin: “I will return and my colleagues will return with similar resolutions in the hopes that we can reach a bipartisan…”

On the recordMarch 19, 1997
I will return and my colleagues will return with similar resolutions in the hopes that we can reach a bipartisan agreement for a timetable to consider this issue. Absent that agreement, many of us are afraid that we will once again fall into this morass of hearings and speeches and a lot of jawboning and very little progress on the subject. I hope that my colleague from Oklahoma will join me in that effort.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Discussing the need for bipartisan agreement on a legislative timetable.

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