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Susan Collins: “This all-night debate has no impact on me whatsoever. It's clearly not an opportunity for a serious debate. We don't…”

On the recordJuly 16, 2007
This all-night debate has no impact on me whatsoever. It's clearly not an opportunity for a serious debate. We don't have to stay in all night to have a serious debate on Iraq. We can do that in the daylight hours just fine. All this is, is a political stunt.
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Susan Collins
Republican · Maine

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Senator Collins criticizes the all-night debate in the Senate as a political stunt rather than a serious discussion on Iraq.

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