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GOP Picks Up Pace With 2-Minute Votes

By Jennifer Yachnin
Roll Call Staff
March 20, 2006, Midnight

Seeking to consolidate time as House Members slogged through dozens of proposed amendments to the $91.9 billion emergency spending bill Thursday, Republican leaders resurrected a tactic that hadn’t been used in nearly 20 years: speed voting.

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