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Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, Members of the House and Senate, My Fellow Americans: I will be brief -- for our time is necessarily short and our agenda is already long. Last year's Congressional session was the longest in peacetime history. With that foundation, let us work together to make this year's session the best in history. Let this session of Congress be known as the session which did more for civil rights than the last hundred sessions combined;

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