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John Joseph Moakley: “This was not the list you and I were talking about. I mean, that was matters that were going on then, and it was my…”

On the recordMarch 8, 1995
This was not the list you and I were talking about. I mean, that was matters that were going on then, and it was my understanding that somewhere we would have met and sat down rather than go up and then see our choices already picked by you on the schedule to be voted out.
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John Joseph Moakley
Massachusetts

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Addressing a disagreement over a list of choices for a scheduled vote.

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