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Robert C. Byrd: “If we cannot have a little confidence in one another here, without attributing to every action an ulterior partisan…”

On the recordJanuary 15, 1975
If we cannot have a little confidence in one another here, without attributing to every action an ulterior partisan motive, then I say, as a Senator of the United States, that we are a failure.
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Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
Source
govinfo.gov
Jan 15, 1975

Editor's note · Context

Responding to charges of partisanship in the Senate's handling of a disputed Senate election.

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