"A lot of my measures were embraced in other bills. I don't want to be (like) Kennedy, Rostenkowski … (and) put bad legislation on the books."
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At the time of publication, U.S. Rep. James H. "Jimmy" Quillen was already the longest serving member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee (having been elected into the U.S. Congress during 1962) and responding to a query as to why he had only introduced three bills as the original legislative sponsor during his thirty year span as an U.S. House member.
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Jimmy Quillen
James "Jimmy" Henry Quillen (January 11, 1916 – November 2, 2003) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from northeast Tennessee from 1963 to 1997.
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