Senate Proceeding on Jul 26th, 2008 :: 0:40:42 to 0:43:42
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Speech By: Jim DeMint

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Jim DeMint: back. mr. durbin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from illinois. mr. durbin: mr. president, after hearing the senator from soutmh carolina, it is time that we initiate investigation.

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Richard Durbin: ihink we ought to call the sergeant at arms office. something terrible has happened here. apparently the pages on the republican side of the aisle are not distributing the "congressional record" to the

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Speech By: Richard Durbin

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Richard Durbin: republican members. the senator from south carolina says that we are about to vote on a secret bill that no one's seen. clearly the pages have failed to put the "congressional record" of july 23 at

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Richard Durbin: the desk of the senator from south carolina, because if they did, the senator would find the bill in its entirety printed in the "congressional record." and i'm surety senator knows no that this is no new bill.

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Richard Durbin: this bill's been around since april. the senator had ample opportunity to read his so-called secret bill. but this is terrible that they aren't distributing the "congressional record" on the republican

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Richard Durbin: side of the aisle. we've got to look into this. and the senatoror says that he has evidence of 855 secret bills. agai a failure to deliver the "congressional record" to the senator from south carolina.

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Richard Durbin: every single one of those bills, i would say to my colleague, is printed in the "congressional record" for you to take home and to read, to read on the plane back and forth to south carolina. it's

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Richard Durbin: all there. and then i'm sure the senator from south carolina has been overlooked because we have something called a hotline. under the hotline, every senate office is called before every bill is

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Richard Durbin: brought to the floor. and any senator can stop the bill, put a hold on it. every senate office is called, and for some reason the republican side of the cloakroom is not obviously calling the senator from

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Richard Durbin: south carolina. olthey are trying to get something past him, this secret bills. it's a shame and it really should be looked into. if the senator from south carolina is not getting the "congressional

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Richard Durbin: record," he's not getting the hotline calls, he's being overlooked by his republican conferee, and that just isn't fair. we need to look into that. for th e rest of the senate, 99 other senators,

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Richard Durbin: this is on our desk every day, the "congressional record," printing out every bill in its entirety for us to read, if we want to, or ask our staff to in a hotline call is made on a regular basis over

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Richard Durbin: and over every day to let you know that a bill might come to the floor.| the "congressional record" is not a classified document. it's open to the american public. it's published so everyone can

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Richard Durbin: read it. it's available on the internet. so i say to the senator from south carolina, let's start delivering the "congressional record" to your desk every day so you can keep up with the senate and know

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Richard Durbin: what's going to be voted on. i might also say the senator has kind of avoided the obvious: the reason we're here today and we could have been with our families and back home is because the senator

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Richard Durbin: from south carolina insisted on it. we tried to get our work done in a way so member could get back to their families. we could have gotten it done yesterday but the senator from south carolina objected.