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Dick Durbin: “If there are no Members on the floor to offer amendments to speak to those amendments, I ask unanimous consent to speak…”

On the recordOctober 20, 2011
If there are no Members on the floor to offer amendments to speak to those amendments, I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. Wall Street Reform
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Oct 20, 2011

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