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James Lankford: “We are gaining muscle memory that every nominee... we are going to still go through the cloture.”

On the recordDecember 18, 2017
We are gaining muscle memory that every nominee... we are going to still go through the cloture.
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James Lankford
Republican · Oklahoma

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Lankford warns against habitual use of cloture for all nominations.

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