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Sidney Yates: “Does that mean that you have frozen the other body, you have compelled the other body to adhere to whatever you put into…”

On the recordJuly 13, 1995
Does that mean that you have frozen the other body, you have compelled the other body to adhere to whatever you put into this rule?
Said by
Sidney Yates
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Questioning the implications of a rule on the other legislative body.

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