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Harry Reid: “If I can respond to my three colleagues, originally we thought this bill would take 1 day, and we know it has been…”

On the recordFebruary 7, 2008
If I can respond to my three colleagues, originally we thought this bill would take 1 day, and we know it has been bifurcated because of other issues. But I would really think that before we spend another few days on this, we have to do everything we can to see if we can come up with a time agreement to give us a way to get to the end so we can have final passage. We do not need to speak, as I have, about the drastic needs in Indian territory. We need to do this. So I hope that--my friends, this is certainly a bipartisan piece of legislation--we can work out some time agreements, and part of that will be final passage.
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Harry Reid
Democratic · Nevada

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Discussing the need for time agreements on a bipartisan bill related to Indian territory.

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