Tom Lantos: “There isn't a Member in this body who could not subscribe to this.…”

On the recordDecember 16, 2005

There isn't a Member in this body who could not subscribe to this. This is not the time for an ugly and divisive debate. And with its rigidity and total unwillingness to listen to half of this body, the majority has chosen to give us an ugly and divisive debate.

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