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Norvell Emerson: If I may say to the gentlewoman, every day the AFL-CIO and the Chamber of Commerce, the NAM and the NRA, and I am sure…

On the recordMarch 24, 1994
If I may say to the gentlewoman, every day the AFL-CIO and the Chamber of Commerce, the NAM and the NRA, and I am sure any number of interest groups in this country rate our votes according to their perspective, and I would suggest there is absolutely nothing inappropriate about that. It is clearly a matter of expression protected, I think not only by the first amendment, but under other provisions of the Constitution, and about the rights of citizens.
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Norvell Emerson
Republican · Missouri

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Discussing the rating of congressional votes by various interest groups.

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