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On the recordNovember 21, 2004
If they want to get it passed, what they need to do is attach it to a bill that helps coal companies or pharmaceutical companies or insurance companies. Then the wrath of God would come down on this Congress, and they'd get it passed, because, see, that's what they really care about.
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James Carville
Democratic · Louisiana

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James Carville suggests that the intelligence reform bill could pass if it were linked to legislation benefiting powerful industries.

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