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Pete Sessions: “Yeah, it was another closed rule. And I think the gentleman makes a point. So I think the people on the committee have…”

On the recordOctober 22, 2007
Yeah, it was another closed rule. And I think the gentleman makes a point. So I think the people on the committee have now figured out time after time after time after time when they're voting for a record number of closed rules that, in fact, I wonder what it was they meant when they said we were going to do that? I think they're questioning what was the intent they said one thing but they're doing something else.
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Pete Sessions
Republican · Texas

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Discussing the use of closed rules in legislative procedures.

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