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Virginia Foxx: Is it appropriate for our colleagues across the aisle to make comments about the bill when they're asking unanimous…

On the recordOctober 13, 2011
Is it appropriate for our colleagues across the aisle to make comments about the bill when they're asking unanimous consent? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair would advise Members to confine their unanimous consent requests to a simple declarative statement of the Member's attitude toward the measure, either ``aye'' or ``no.'' Further embellishments will result in deductions of time from the gentleman from Florida.
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Virginia Foxx
Republican · North Carolina
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Oct 13, 2011

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