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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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