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Orangepeel

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21. Flake already voted yes to advancing it to the floor

Reply to Towlie (Reply #19)

Wed Oct 3, 2018, 08:05 PM

Oct 2018

Besides, Before the committee vote, McConnel said he’d bring it to the floor regardless of the committee’s recommendation (although that might have been a bluff)

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