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Pete Sessions: “Let me ask this, with the presence of the distinguished former chairman of the Judiciary Committee in the Chamber. At…”

On the recordMay 23, 2005
Let me ask this, with the presence of the distinguished former chairman of the Judiciary Committee in the Chamber. At that very moment when it was to the Republican interests to initiate a filibuster, if we chose to do so, at that moment, when he was, on principle, opposing it, the very Members of the opposite party, leading Senators on that side--Senator Leahy and Senator Kennedy and Senator Feinstein and Senator Boxer--were making speeches saying how bad the filibuster was and how it should not be done. Mr. McCONNELL. I would say to my friend that is why we have been quoting them so much in all of our speeches on this side of the aisle. You could just change the names, and they could have been giving our speeches as recently as 1998, 1999, and even 2000.
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Pete Sessions
Republican · Texas
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