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Billy Long: You can deal from a position of defeat and doubt and decline like our colleagues across the aisle like to, but I wish I…

On the recordJanuary 24, 2012
You can deal from a position of defeat and doubt and decline like our colleagues across the aisle like to, but I wish I would have stepped 14 steps down the hall to my good friend from Oregon's office--that's how far our offices are apart--and I could have studied on how the first term of George W. Bush they worked night and day how to figure out how to get him reelected, because apparently Mr. McConnell is doing something wrong in the Senate.
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Billy Long
Missouri
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Jan 24, 2012

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