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On the recordMarch 22, 1994
I thank the gentleman from Minnesota. I would add the words of the great New Hampshire-New England poet, Robert Frost, that the path taken, or the path chosen be the one that is less taken. I think that represents the path of bipartisanship. Because that really is the real problem that we are facing here in the Congress today. If you look at the society around us, if you see how crime rages in the streets, how special interests control the actions here in Congress, the divisiveness between groups, whether they be ethnic or economic or geographic, all of these differences and divisive elements throughout our society, I think, would begin to heal, would begin to come together if they saw in the Nation's power structure here in the House of Representatives and in the Senate a willingness to begin to reason and respect and incorporate the viewpoints of both sides of the aisle.
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Richard Swett
Democratic · New Hampshire

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Addressing the need for bipartisanship in Congress amidst societal divisiveness.

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