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Harry Reid: “I ask the Senator, also, based on what was reported in the Senator's home State newspaper, it appears to me, in…”

On the recordJanuary 28, 2003
I ask the Senator, also, based on what was reported in the Senator's home State newspaper, it appears to me, in answering my own question, that maybe they had a lot more to do with writing that speech than one would necessarily think. I think these people already know what is going to be in the speech, if you represent Eli Lilly. You can tell about that from what went on on the floor last week.
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Harry Reid
Democratic · Nevada

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Discussing the influence of Eli Lilly on a Senator's speech during a floor debate.

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