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Transcript: U.S. SENATOR ROBERT BYRD (D-WV) U.S. SENATOR ROBERT BYRD (D-WV) DELIVERS REMARKS ON SENATE FLOOR ON THE NOMINATION OF CONDOLEEZZA RICE TO BE SECRETARY OF STATE
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- January 25, 2005
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Washington Transcript Service
01-25-2005
SENATOR BYRD DELIVERS REMARKS ON THE SENATE FLOOR ON THE
NOMINATION OF CONDOLEEZZA RICE TO BE SECRETARY OF STATE
JANUARY 25, 2005
SPEAKER: U.S. SENATOR ROBERT BYRD (D-WV)
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BYRD: Mr. President, in Federalist Number 77, Alexander Hamilton
wrote, "It will readily be comprehended that a man who had himself the
sole disposition of (inaudible) would be governed much more by his private
inclinations and interests than when he was bound to submit the propriety
of his choice to the discussion and determination of a different and independent
body and that body, an entire branch of the legislature.
"The possibility of rejection would ...