He has been described as the "day before yesterday's man" - and the rest of the convention does not do much better.

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And we hope that the Speaker would consider taking up that proposal, because just -- I think it was yesterday or the day before -- the Speaker talked about how he believes we could and should reform the tax code.

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"We did our work yesterday and the day before, we knew how we wanted to play, " he stated.

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