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Committees and sessions
and adjournments
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and budget cuts and appropriations.
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What do you do for laughs? What do you
do for tears for that matter?
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For tears... for tears I cry, Captain Pringle.
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It may interest you to know
I once cried for a man
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till my eyes were
half washed out of my head.
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Not really.
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I was on an important subcommittee.
One was a Southern Democrat.
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His convictions
were utterly different from mine.
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I hated everything he stood for.
I despised his politics.
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But I loved him... insanely.
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I loved the Southern syrup in his voice.
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His mint julep manners.
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The way he'd look at me
through his long thick eyelashes
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when I was vetoing an amendment.
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He'd put his arm around me,
just kind of lazy, like.
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Lean his head against my cheek.
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His hair had a deep wave in it.
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- You know what he was trying to do?
- What?
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He was trying to sway my vote.
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Once he drove me home
from an all-night meeting,
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stopped his car on Earl Street.
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For no reason at all, he said,
except he was yearning for my lips.
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To tell you the truth, I was yearning for his.
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But it would have meant betraying
my platform and my constituents.
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- What did you do?
- I filibustered.
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- You what?
- I just kept on talking.
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The constitution, the Bill of Rights, poems,
Longfellow, anything I could think of.
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Von Schloss, von Schlotzing,
von Schlumann, von Schlürmann,
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von...
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- No other man since the mint julep guy?
- No.
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- No more what you call yearning?
- No.
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- Sure?
- None of your business.