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On the recordFebruary 24, 2010
That's what we called it during the last hour. We called it ``Political Drama.'' You know, there isn't anything, first of all, that the Republicans can do that could block his bill. The problem he has got is he doesn't even have enough Democrats who want to do this thing, so he is trying to drum up, as you say, support for this thing to make it look like there are people who are supporting it. Yet he goes behind closed doors, puts some deal together, comes out, and says, Now are you going to agree with it? There is nothing bipartisan about that. It's just a scam. I just don't think the American people are going to buy it.
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W. Todd Akin
Missouri

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The speaker criticizes the lack of bipartisan support for a bill and calls it a political scam.

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