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Melton Hancock: “He said, well, he said, here in the Congress you have one of two choices. You can either vote politics or you can vote…”

On the recordJune 25, 1996
He said, well, he said, here in the Congress you have one of two choices. You can either vote politics or you can vote what is right. Sometimes they are the same, sometimes they are not. But he said, I know you, and I know southwest Missouri, and I know the people of the State of Missouri. And he said, Mel, if you will just vote your gut feeling on anything that comes up here in Washington, DC, that we are voting on, he said, you will probably be right about 99 percent of the time.
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Melton Hancock
Republican · Missouri
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Editor's note · Context

Reflecting on advice received from Bill Emerson during his early days in Congress.

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