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John W. Olver: “This is one of those cases in which we've gone back and forth here today with the gentleman from California. This must…”

On the recordJune 27, 2012
This is one of those cases in which we've gone back and forth here today with the gentleman from California. This must be the eighth or ninth of these, and it's hard to find ways of being very creative or original about what you're saying. The interesting thing here is that, for some of the time, the gentleman has been going back to whatever we had done several years ago, going back arbitrarily to some point in the past. Here, of course, he is supporting the President's position. I was not aware that the gentleman from California supported the President's position in much of anything.
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John W. Olver
Massachusetts
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Jun 27, 2012

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