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On the recordSeptember 25, 2011
Well, if one is to believe that the House -- the Senate Republican leader Senator McConnell who said after we went through the last deal on the debt ceiling is that this is what they were going to do in every instance, that they were going to try to extract something before they vote on this.
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James Carville
Democratic · Louisiana

Editor's note · Context

Carville discusses the Republican strategy as articulated by Senator McConnell regarding negotiations in Congress.

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