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On the recordOctober 18, 2011
Yes. Mr. McCONNELL. Am I correct, I would say to my friends from South Carolina and New Hampshire and Arizona, that because of the administration's opposition to a detainee treatment provision that was, I gather, approved overwhelmingly in the Armed Services Committee, we will for the first time deny everybody in the Senate an opportunity to offer any amendments on any subject with the DOD authorization bill and, in fact, will not consider it on the floor of the Senate for the first time in four decades?
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

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