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Harry Reid: “As I said just a few minutes ago, I would be happy to have the two managers, with the appropriate staff--I have listed a…”

On the recordApril 4, 2006
As I said just a few minutes ago, I would be happy to have the two managers, with the appropriate staff--I have listed a number of amendments here: Mikulski-Warner-Snowe, Dorgan- Burns, Bond, Collins, Brownback, Stevens-Leahy, maybe the Allard amendment, which I haven't read in its entirety, but I think that is appropriate. I think what we should do--there are a number of these, and you may have some others on the other side that we could work out and set up a sequence of when we should vote on these, how much time should be used in debate. I would be happy to do that.
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Harry Reid
Democratic · Nevada

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