“Everybody I know, and I’m not just talking about 10 or 20 people, nobody could believe we even got this far. The laws are bad.”

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On the recordJune 4, 2013
I think I am starting to hear the Senate starting to work the way it should, and so I am going to offer a unanimous consent request that the list she presently has, with the ranking member, the Senator from Mississippi, of a large number of amendments be considered as read and in order; that the list the Senator proffered, which went through both cloakrooms this afternoon, I ask unanimous consent that be agreed to and those be filed and considered. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
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Tom Coburn
Republican · Oklahoma
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Jun 4, 2013

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