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Eliot Engel: “This bill is an exception, I think, to bipartisanship, in that no Democrats were consulted in terms of the drafting of…”

On the recordJanuary 6, 2016
This bill is an exception, I think, to bipartisanship, in that no Democrats were consulted in terms of the drafting of the bill.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

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Critiques the lack of bipartisan consultation in the bill's drafting.

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