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On the recordMarch 5, 2012
This body, this country, and the entire world lost a true gentleman in Donald Payne, and we lost a quintessential statesman.
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Cedric Richmond
Democratic · Louisiana

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Richmond expresses the significant loss of Payne's leadership.

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