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Harry Reid: “I ask my friend--Senator Byrd spoke earlier today, prior to the point of order having been filed, and I asked: Did I…”

On the recordNovember 14, 2001
I ask my friend--Senator Byrd spoke earlier today, prior to the point of order having been filed, and I asked: Did I hear, Senator Byrd, they are going to file a point of order that this is not an emergency? And he answered: Yes, they are. They have filed a point of order that the plan now before the Senate, the Baucus plan, together with the Byrd plan, is not an emergency. Can the Senator from Massachusetts give me any ideas, any reason, how this could not be an emergency? Does the Senator have any idea how this could not be an emergency? How could anyone in good conscience say this is not an emergency?
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Harry Reid
Democratic · Nevada
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Discussing the classification of a legislative plan as an emergency during Senate debate.

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