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On the recordDecember 17, 2007
That is four-and-a-half months to review the overwhelming majority of the substance of these bills.
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Steny Hoyer
Democratic · Maryland

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Steny Hoyer defends the time allocated for reviewing the spending bills before they were passed.

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