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Jeff Smith: “I have never heard anybody use that term [friendly…”

Featuring: Jeff Smith, Democratic | Wisconsin State Senate, District 31

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Jeff Smith Show: Working for Wisconsin

Published | Video Starts at 09:29

We called it friendly amendment. A friendly amendment. A friendly amendment meant that the author of the bill accepted an amendment from somebody else. It was a friendly amendment. I have never heard anybody use that term [friendly amendment] since I've got come back into the Senate. If I may, I would like to share what happens here in Trapello County. Almost every resolution that has come before the board has passed unanimously, believe it or not. (09:29–09:34)

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Asserts that the term "friendly amendment" has not been used since returning to the Senate.

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