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Mark Warner: “Not only didn't it slow me up, it was our committee, not your committee, that held the hearings that adduced the facts…”

On the recordMay 16, 2002
Not only didn't it slow me up, it was our committee, not your committee, that held the hearings that adduced the facts and brought them to the floor of the Senate which resulted in the rejection of that treaty. Our committee did that work.
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Mark Warner
Democratic · Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Defending his committee's role in rejecting a treaty during Senate debate.

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