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Jim Sensenbrenner: “I keep on telling the high school classes that I talk to about what really goes on here that 95 percent of the bills…”

On the recordDecember 6, 2006
I keep on telling the high school classes that I talk to about what really goes on here that 95 percent of the bills that we pass are worked out in committee, and the debate and votes on the floor merely ratify decisions that have been made earlier in committee. The problem is that compromise agreement, and I would even submit accomplishment, do not get any media attention. It is allegations of misconduct, actual knock out, drag down fights in those areas that we do have disagreements on that really monopolize the news media.
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Jim Sensenbrenner
Republican · Wisconsin
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