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Byron Dorgan: I would expect that piece of legislation would take some significant time. But that wasn't the reason I asked the…

On the recordOctober 23, 1997
I would expect that piece of legislation would take some significant time. But that wasn't the reason I asked the Senator to yield. There clearly is a wrench in the crankcase here and we are not moving. I suspect the Senator from Mississippi, the majority leader, feels the wrench is he's not able to get cloture on the highway bill and others feel that the wrench is that we are not able to get a vote on the McCain-Feingold legislation. I wonder whether we wouldn't, in the coming days, be able to accomplish both purposes. Are there circumstances under which we might be able to expect that we can proceed on the highway bill and proceed to find a way to have a vote in some fashion on the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill?
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Byron Dorgan
Democratic · North Dakota

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Discussing legislative progress on the highway bill and McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform.

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