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Roy Blunt: “Using my time here, I would suggest that in the previous Congress, while we did have some votes on Iraq, we did not have…”

On the recordJuly 12, 2007
Using my time here, I would suggest that in the previous Congress, while we did have some votes on Iraq, we did not have votes that didn't have hearings; we didn't have votes that didn't seek information. At 10:30 at night, I don't want to belabor this in the debate that we've already had today, but I do think that information on these kinds of issues would be helpful if we could gain that through the normal process. And while we may have talked about Iraq in the normal process, certainly, many of the questions that this bill generated never had a chance to be asked. And just from my own perspective as a Member of Congress, I would think that there's a better way to approach this critically important issue than that.
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Roy Blunt
Republican · Missouri

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Discussing the need for more thorough hearings and information on Iraq during a debate.

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