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Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), "The Road Taken"

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Were You Surprised When He Said That on C-Span?

I'm proud of things like right after 9-11, Attorney General Ashcroft wanted to immediately change a lot of our laws which would have limited speech and people's rights in this country. And I said, no, we're going to take a closer look at this. Now you had a, you're known as being blunt spoken. So is Dick Cheney. There was a time, there was a time that he was on the hill when he was Vice President, talking to Republicans. You went over and asked him to come over and talk to the Democrats. He told you a phrase we can't repeat on C-SPAN, a vulgar phrase about what you should do with yourself.

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