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Pat Ryan: If the minority would have been willing to agree to limiting their motions to instruct conferees to two, we could have…

On the recordSeptember 25, 2013
If the minority would have been willing to agree to limiting their motions to instruct conferees to two, we could have gone to conference.
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Pat Ryan
Democratic · New York

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Ryan discusses the potential for progress if the minority party had agreed to certain terms.

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