Moreover, and I want to emphasize this as Senator Lugar and Senator Biden have, for all of the examples that Senator Helms cited today -- for every single nominee who has been blocked at some point in the process -- when a majority of United States Senators, duly elected and sworn, have wanted to force an issue, it has been forced.

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Before being sworn in, he duly resigned from Rocksoil.

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