On the recordAugust 10, 1988
I am majority leader because my party controls this Senate in response to the people's voice out there from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico.
Robert C. Byrd: “I am majority leader because my party controls this Senate in response to the people's voice out there from the Atlantic…”
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Urging Democrats to vote together on an amendment concerning the Central American peace plan.
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