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Joe Barton: If 75 percent of the Republicans out there listening today or tonight and 63 percent of the Democrats out there…

On the recordApril 21, 1998
If 75 percent of the Republicans out there listening today or tonight and 63 percent of the Democrats out there listening tonight would pick up the phone, crank up the fax machine, get on the Internet and send an e-mail, we could wake this Congress up and pass this tomorrow with a resounding vote.
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Joe Barton
Republican · Texas

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Encouraging constituents to contact Congress to support legislation.

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