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Harry Reid: “What the Senator said is we can focus on Iraq and that there are many issues the President can help us on: Getting…”

On the recordSeptember 17, 2002
What the Senator said is we can focus on Iraq and that there are many issues the President can help us on: Getting appropriations bills passed in the House would help us; doing something on election reform--we had another debacle in Florida 2 years after the original debacle; we passed a bill and are waiting to get that out of conference. We have the energy bill we need to get out of conference with the House. There is terrorism insurance, bankruptcy--am I missing anything?--generic drugs. That is one issue about which the Senator from Illinois and I did not talk.
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Harry Reid
Democratic · Nevada

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Discussing various legislative issues and priorities during a Senate floor debate.

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