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Robert Byrd: “As usual, when there are undesirable practices, the partisan blame is pretty nearly evenly divided between the two…”

On the recordApril 4, 2001
As usual, when there are undesirable practices, the partisan blame is pretty nearly evenly divided between the two parties.
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Robert Byrd

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Byrd discusses shared responsibility for undesirable Senate practices.

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