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Timothy H. Bishop: “I believe that if we were to bring those recommendations here, I believe they would attract majority support in this…”

On the recordJune 6, 2007
I believe that if we were to bring those recommendations here, I believe they would attract majority support in this Chamber, and perhaps that could then be used as a means to moving with the administration, who I think now has also endorsed the recommendations of the Study Group. Initially they seemed to reject them, or at least dismiss them, but I think now, as time has passed and as the situation on the ground has continued to evolve, they now recognize that they do have merit, that they do have legitimacy.
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Timothy H. Bishop
New York
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Discussing the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group during a House floor debate.

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