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On the recordJune 20, 2002
I thank the leadership. This goes back to the days when I was privileged to be in the Senate with Senator Stennis, who will always be the person who started me on this course of action; that is the way he worked. That is the way John Tower, Barry Goldwater, Scoop Jackson, and those who preceded us worked when it came to the issues of national defense. They managed those bills with great skill, and less dependence, of course, on cloture. I hope this will be the direction in which we will move.
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Mark Warner
Democratic · Virginia

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Reflecting on past Senate leaders and their approach to national defense legislation.

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