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Sheldon Whitehouse: “If agreements are that easily broken after they are made, then the sinews of the Senate begin to come apart.”

On the recordJanuary 30, 2013
If agreements are that easily broken after they are made, then the sinews of the Senate begin to come apart.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse warns about the consequences of broken agreements in the Senate.

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