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Dick Durbin: “Thank you very much. I imagine there are occasionally times when your brother's name is confused with another Patrick…”

On the recordSeptember 6, 2011
Thank you very much. I imagine there are occasionally times when your brother's name is confused with another Patrick Fitzgerald.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Durbin humorously comments on name confusion regarding Fitzgerald's brother.

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