Peter Blute: “But again, you know, we need to have vigorous debate. I mean, again…”

On the recordMay 1, 1996

But again, you know, we need to have vigorous debate. I mean, again the people who were promoting this civility resolution are some of the hardest, toughest debaters, and I have heard Zach out there. Jay gave a speech earlier on the minimum wage, on his position on that minimum wage. It was very focused on the issue. You did not characterize the other side as wanting to kill jobs, but that you felt the result would be that there would be jobs lost, and I think that is what we want. We want a vigorous debate, tough, tough minded, tough characterizations, but we need to keep it within a limit so that we do not turn off the American people because, frankly, they need to hear and be educated about some of these very complicated issues.

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Peter Blute

Republican · Massachusetts

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Discussing the importance of vigorous debate and civility in political discourse.

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