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Dick Durbin: “I would like to ask the majority leader this question: Is it not true that yesterday, in response to this Republican…”

On the recordJanuary 15, 2014
I would like to ask the majority leader this question: Is it not true that yesterday, in response to this Republican demand, the majority leader offered a unanimous consent that would have given up to 10 amendments on each side of the aisle--Democrats and Republicans--to this measure and that the Democrats did not specify what the amendments would be; that it would really be the decision of the Republicans to offer those amendments? Did the Senate majority leader offer that to the Senate Republicans so they would stop their filibuster of unemployment benefits?
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jan 15, 2014

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