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Pete Sessions: Mr. Speaker, I, too, would like to have this House not only consider important pieces of legislation, as we are doing…

On the recordOctober 12, 2000
Mr. Speaker, I, too, would like to have this House not only consider important pieces of legislation, as we are doing today, but also, as the gentleman from Texas has outlined, that there are a good number of things that we have yet to do that have not been done, just as we have not seen the ability to take social security to a lockbox that is being held up in the Congress of the United States because of the Democrat party. There are frustrating things that are occurring every day. The fact of the matter is, and I would remind my colleague, we are working together. We are going to continue until we have resolved the differences that we have. This is part of the bipartisan approach, but the fact of the matter is that rather than us sitting here and bickering, we need to get our job done on this important piece of legislation that has been passed numerous times. Mr. Speaker, I will once again remind my colleagues, this bankruptcy reform passed with more than 300 votes from this body. I am proud of the work that we are doing.
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Pete Sessions
Republican · Texas

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Discussing the need for bipartisan cooperation on important legislation, including bankruptcy reform.

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