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Howard Metzenbaum: last week I took the floor in response to some statements by the junior Senator from New York. I described my friend's…

On the recordFebruary 8, 1994
last week I took the floor in response to some statements by the junior Senator from New York. I described my friend's daily speeches as getting ``curiouser and curiouser,'' a description I lifted from a prominent work of literary fiction. In fact, the Senator's daily speeches, in my opinion, each represent a chapter in a completely new and original work of fiction. I call it ``Alfonse in Wonderland.''

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Metzenbaum responds to remarks made by the junior Senator from New York.

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