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Bob Menendez: Well, I would like an answer, because I have just had Mr. Dornan, a former Member of this House, come up and verbally…

On the recordSeptember 17, 1997
Well, I would like an answer, because I have just had Mr. Dornan, a former Member of this House, come up and verbally accost me. And I do not expect in the greatest democratic institution in the world to have to take what my foreparents did not do, in a country in which they left to avoid, is that to have to come to this body and listen to a former Member of the House proceed in that way and to use words that were both profane and at the same time to use words that were demeaning. So I want to know, in public, what procedure do we have to not have that type of action happen on the House floor?
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Bob Menendez
Democratic · New Jersey

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Addressing inappropriate behavior from a former Member of the House.

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