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On the recordJune 12, 2013
Mr. President, I still have the floor. I am sorry we have had this disagreement, but I would say to everybody that there are other ways of having simple-majority votes. If there is an objection to this, we will have to go to that. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alabama.
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