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Barney Frank: “Well, the gentleman acknowledges without my yielding to him, but I am a generous kind of guy so I will acknowledge his…”

On the recordSeptember 13, 2000
Well, the gentleman acknowledges without my yielding to him, but I am a generous kind of guy so I will acknowledge his acknowledgment. The gentleman acknowledges that he filed two instructions yesterday, on the spur of the moment, which contradicted each other, and then he prayed over it overnight and figured out that they contradicted each other. We were not told until shortly before we began which one he was going to do. So apparently the gentleman first figured out they contradicted each other and then decided which one.
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Barney Frank
Democratic · Massachusetts
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Discussing conflicting instructions filed by a colleague during a legislative session.

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