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Patrick Leahy: “When I became Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee I was sitting in a room for a day, having the whole Federal…”

On the recordSeptember 18, 2009
When I became Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee I was sitting in a room for a day, having the whole Federal order pricing explained to me. I was then committed to an asylum for several months to recover.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

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Leahy humorously reflects on the complexity of Federal order pricing.

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