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Robert C. Byrd: “I join the able minority leader in saying that the American public must be allowed continued access to the Capitol of…”

On the recordMarch 1, 1971
I join the able minority leader in saying that the American public must be allowed continued access to the Capitol of the United States, the seat of their Government. It is the symbol of our American form of constitutional government, and they must be allowed continued access to it.
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Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
Source
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Mar 1, 1971

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Responding to a bomb planted in the Senate wing of the Capitol.

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