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Don Nickles: “The Senator from Alaska has been here a little bit longer than I have, and I compliment him for his years of service as…”

On the recordJuly 11, 1996
The Senator from Alaska has been here a little bit longer than I have, and I compliment him for his years of service as well as the Senator from Hawaii, Senator Inouye, and I hope we can move forward with this legislation. I cannot recall--I have been around when we had a few filibusters-- but I cannot recall in my 16 years here that anybody has filibustered a bill, not the bill they were opposed to, but filibustering a bill that is coming up prior to the bill that they were opposed to.
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Don Nickles
Oklahoma
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Discussing legislative procedures and filibusters during Senate debate.

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