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Byron Dorgan: If we don't finish this product now, if we don't get a tobacco bill completed in the Senate, in my judgment, we probably…

On the recordJune 16, 1998
If we don't finish this product now, if we don't get a tobacco bill completed in the Senate, in my judgment, we probably will never get it done. We have come a long, long ways. We are, I think, close. I don't think there is any question but if the tobacco bill were voted on by the full Senate, it would pass. I don't think there is much question about that. There are some in the Senate, however, who are intent on trying to kill the legislation. So we have been tied up here in legislative knots, going through some amendments, but going through a process that has led some to conclude that maybe this bill ought to get pulled, maybe we ought to go to something else.
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Byron Dorgan
Democratic · North Dakota

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Discussing the urgency of passing tobacco legislation in the Senate.

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