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Dick Durbin: “Does not this reflect the new reality that maybe Senator Byrd did not have to live within his political experience, that…”

On the recordApril 21, 2010
Does not this reflect the new reality that maybe Senator Byrd did not have to live within his political experience, that now is the reality of the Senate?
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Durbin contrasts current Senate dynamics with those experienced by Senator Byrd.

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