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Frank Lautenberg: I left this committee in 2001. I thought I was going to do something else, but nothing pulled at my conscience more than…

On the recordMarch 31, 2009
I left this committee in 2001. I thought I was going to do something else, but nothing pulled at my conscience more than the fact that I left the Senate, and the year 2001 we had the terrible calamity of 9/11.
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Frank Lautenberg
Democratic · New Jersey

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Lautenberg reflects on his return to the Senate after 9/11.

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