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Larry Pressler: “From this Senator's point of view, the public interest is very much at heart throughout these considerations. I think…”

On the recordJune 9, 1995
From this Senator's point of view, the public interest is very much at heart throughout these considerations. I think all the Senators who worked on this bill have had the public interest. I do not accept that conclusion about the Senate of the United States.
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Larry Pressler
South Dakota

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Defending the integrity of the Senate's work on a bill.

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