wright -- no, he was speaker when i got here. but he would then be the leader in the fight to stop the age of the contras. republicans went after him, but our caucus was divided on the subject. then shortly thereafter it was nafta. very big division in the caucus on nafta, very big division on nafta. then the war in iraq, differences of opinion. as you know, i was -- you may not know, ranking member, it was adam schiff at the time, he was chairman i was the top democrat, we didn't have the majority. i said the intelligence did not support the threat. they said you're calling the president a liar. i said i'm not calling him a liar, i'm state ailing fact, the intelligence does not support the threat that this administration is using as a justification for war. people said to me then and i had been in congress over ten years by then, you're never going to anyplace in this party unless you vote for this war. well i didn't vote for it and
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