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Steny Hoyer: Mr. Speaker, today on this serious and most sensitive issue, the Republican leadership has turned the people's House…

On the recordJuly 24, 2002
Mr. Speaker, today on this serious and most sensitive issue, the Republican leadership has turned the people's House into nothing more than a poser's House, posing for holy pictures... Today's debate will not be open. It will not be fair. And it will not be a serious attempt to legislate. The rule ensures a rigged procedure to contrive a predetermined outcome, the very process the Republican Party derided when it regained the majority.
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Steny Hoyer
Democratic · Maryland

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Criticizing the Republican leadership's handling of legislative debate.

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