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John Sarbanes: First of all, I am very responsive to the Senator's personal plea. It strikes me this may be in the way of being an…

On the recordSeptember 29, 1995
First of all, I am very responsive to the Senator's personal plea. It strikes me this may be in the way of being an autopsy in order to find out why these bills are corpses, and that is the process we are engaged in, trying to discover what it is about these bills that made them corpses.
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John Sarbanes
Democratic · Maryland

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Discussing the failure of certain bills during a Senate debate.

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