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Tom Udall: “If your premise is correct, that that Congress in 1974 had no right to bind the Congress of today, then the whole…”

On the recordApril 21, 2010
If your premise is correct, that that Congress in 1974 had no right to bind the Congress of today, then the whole reconciliation process is gone.
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Tom Udall
Democratic · New Mexico

Editor's note · Context

Arguing against the notion that past Congresses can't bind future ones.

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