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Robert C. Byrd: “Let us vote up or down on this issue, for all the world to see, and bear the weight of our decision, and not our…”

On the recordSeptember 19, 1978
Let us vote up or down on this issue, for all the world to see, and bear the weight of our decision, and not our indecision.
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Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
Source
govinfo.gov
Sep 19, 1978

Editor's note · Context

Urging the Senate to reject a motion to recommit the natural gas conference report.

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