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On the recordFebruary 9, 2015
Well, that is why this committee--at least in Bill's and my era, there was much more nonpartisanship in the Senate than there apparently is today.
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Robert Packwood
Republican · Oregon

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Packwood comments on the decline of bipartisanship in the Senate.

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