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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “It is my understanding that the House Rules Committee rejected by a vote of 9 to 6 the proposal which had come out…”

On the recordJanuary 23, 1962
It is my understanding that the House Rules Committee rejected by a vote of 9 to 6 the proposal which had come out, which we had sent up, and which had come out of the House Committee on Government Operations.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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