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Steve Cohen: I respect the gentleman from Kentucky greatly and appreciate his remarks, but I would say if his position is there's no…

On the recordOctober 5, 2011
I respect the gentleman from Kentucky greatly and appreciate his remarks, but I would say if his position is there's no harm, no foul, if there's no harm, no foul and it's duplicative, then there's no reason not to adopt it in case he's wrong, and I think he is. I think it does add something. So the best case is you protect the worker, and the worst case is you have a couple of extra sentences in the law that make no difference. So I would ask that we all join together in a bipartisan Kumbaya moment that we've been missing and need to have again, and I ask you to support it.
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee
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Oct 5, 2011

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