We worked several weeks. It really was night and day. We had people going home at 2 o'clock in the morning and coming back at 5 o'clock in the morning to do that. I was getting e-mails at home at 3:30 in the morning from members of my staff and continued to do that until we got that bill out.
Describing the intense effort put into passing a bill.
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