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Barney Frank: “The gentleman gets the date wrong. He said since 1989. Same-sex marriage started in the Netherlands in 2001. When…”

On the recordSeptember 30, 2004
The gentleman gets the date wrong. He said since 1989. Same-sex marriage started in the Netherlands in 2001. When Members are giving statistics, they ought to know what they mean.
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Barney Frank
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Correcting a colleague's statement about the history of same-sex marriage.

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