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On the recordMay 18, 2010
Mr. President, reserving the right to object--and I will not object--I want to ask the Senator from Connecticut if he might add to that unanimous-consent request that following that, amendment No. 4109, which I have filed, be considered at that point. Let me explain. I had filed an amendment. We have modified it. The amendment, properly filed, as I had modified it, is amendment No. 4109. It is the amendment that deals with the issue of naked credit default swaps. As my colleague knows, I have been here for 2 weeks attempting to get it pending. I ask that the unanimous consent request be modified to include making amendment 4109 pending following the disposition of the other two amendments.
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Byron Dorgan
Democratic · North Dakota

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