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On the recordJune 14, 2000
reclaiming my time, I really was not trying to be partisan. My colleague can attack Clinton and so forth. The only point that I was making, and I did not mean to be partisan, I only meant to record for the Record what the Republicans in 1997 said. And I think what they said was appropriate.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

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Addressing partisanship in a discussion about Republican statements from 1997.

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