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Patrick Leahy: “I say to my friend from Mississippi, I have worked on each one of these pieces of legislation so much. There are times…”

On the recordOctober 7, 1998
I say to my friend from Mississippi, I have worked on each one of these pieces of legislation so much. There are times when I have attempted to pull out what little bit of hair I have left, and, frankly, I hope we can move this. I will personally go to anybody who is lodging objection to see what I can do to clear it up, because I absolutely concur with the Senator from Mississippi and the Senator from South Dakota, the Democratic leader, that this is something which should be moved forward; we want to move it forward. I hope I can tell the distinguished majority leader within a few minutes we do have it cleared.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont
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Discussing efforts to advance legislation during Senate floor debate.

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