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If at all possible, we had to build a positive relationship. ” On Monday night the Congress finally sent me an extension of the debt limit. For all our excitement and commitment, we were tired going in, not having taken any real time off after the election. I rejected them all.

There was nothing to do but suit up and take the field. tives of one member of our delegation, Congressman Peter King of New York, who had brought his mother home for the event. On November 3, despite the huge Republican financial advantage, the attacks on me, and the pundits’ predictions of the Democrats’ demise, the elections went our way. ked in bad faith and in collusion with Starr, and they had repeatedly defied the judge’s order not to leak.