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Calvin Coolidge: “As a practical matter I wonder just what chance there would ever be to get any Senate to ratify a codification of any…”

On the recordJanuary 24, 1929
As a practical matter I wonder just what chance there would ever be to get any Senate to ratify a codification of any kind of laws.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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