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Bill Cassidy: “If I may say, I admire your verbal sleight-of-hand because never in the past has royalty sharing been considered…”

On the recordJune 27, 2013
If I may say, I admire your verbal sleight-of-hand because never in the past has royalty sharing been considered earmarks. But if now we're going to start considering royalty sharing earmarks, heck, let's go back and look at every State. But that is, again, a verbal sleight-of-hand. That is not under the definition of an earmark, and I think the gentleman knows that.
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Bill Cassidy
Republican · Louisiana
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Jun 27, 2013

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