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Robert C. Byrd: “Massive legislative proposals such as this one always, in my experience around here, always attract too much baggage.…”

On the recordAugust 18, 1994
Massive legislative proposals such as this one always, in my experience around here, always attract too much baggage. And the longer we are on the floor, the more excess baggage it attracts.
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Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
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Aug 18, 1994

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Debating the health care reform bill and its effect on the deficit.

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