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Alan Simpson: “I think respect for each other is what the Senate is about. We can have serious partisan differences. Senator…”

On the recordSeptember 5, 1996
I think respect for each other is what the Senate is about. We can have serious partisan differences. Senator Rockefeller and I have more serious partisan differences than most two people on the floor. But that need not interfere with our ability to legislate. I wish it were that easy. It is not. In the beginning of my remarks I stated that if there was something there before to establish such a link, there would have been a lot of plaintiffs who would have never settled the case when they were having a great old time suing everybody that ever introduced herbicides containing dioxin.
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Alan Simpson
Wyoming
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Discussing bipartisan cooperation and the challenges of establishing a link between dioxin and disease.

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