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Pete Sessions: “I appreciate the gentleman engaging me in a colloquy, and I will just give him a straight answer. We did not offer any…”

On the recordApril 6, 2011
I appreciate the gentleman engaging me in a colloquy, and I will just give him a straight answer. We did not offer any waivers. All 12 amendments offered by Democrats were germane. This, and perhaps others that were submitted to the Rules Committee, were not germane to the House rules, so we did not offer any waiver. But the others that we did, the 12, were all germane and did not have to have a waiver.
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Pete Sessions
Republican · Texas
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Apr 6, 2011

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