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Dick Durbin: “If the Senator from Oregon would yield for just a moment, I would like to ask consent that this infamous page 257 be…”

On the recordDecember 1, 2017
If the Senator from Oregon would yield for just a moment, I would like to ask consent that this infamous page 257 be made a part of the Record after my speech, but I am really sorry for the members of the staff who have to try to write this out--type it out.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 1, 2017

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