A year ago today, the Presiding Officer gave one of the classic speeches in American history as a freshman Senator responding to the State of the Union Message. It was a message that was accepted on both sides of the aisle by the people of Virginia and everyone in this country. I wish to remind the Senator what a great public service he rendered last year in giving this speech.
Praising a fellow Senator's speech from the previous year during a discussion on the State of the Union.
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He has no regrets. He says he had to do it to save Obama’s presidency because of what the Republicans were doing to obstruct the president’s confirmation of judges and other legislative things.
Let ‘em do it. Why in the world would we care? We were trying to protect everybody.
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