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Mark Warner: “I say, Madam President, the distinguished majority leader said Congress should speak with one voice. We have in our…”

On the recordOctober 10, 2002
I say, Madam President, the distinguished majority leader said Congress should speak with one voice. We have in our resolution-- you recognize the problem of one body. This is a total substitute amendment. It strips out everything. As the Senator from Delaware knows, I say to the distinguished chairman, the Levin resolution just takes part of 687. It does not incorporate the previous resolutions, the 16 which we have time and again on this floor said Saddam Hussein has ignored. I say to my friend, it is very important, as the leader said, that Congress speak with one voice, and the only way to do that is to retain our Lieberman-Warner-McCain-Bayh amendment and not have a substitute. I yield the floor.
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Mark Warner
Democratic · Virginia

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Discussing the importance of a unified congressional resolution regarding Iraq.

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