Representative WILLIAM JEFFERSON (Democrat, Louisiana): This has never happened before, and the first time it's happening it's happening to an African American.

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Something like this has never happened before.

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"I was thinking, 'This has never happened before in poetry, and I'm sure it will never happen again, '" says John Barr, president of the Poetry Foundation, the author of six volumes of poetry and a former investment banker.

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Interleague has been around so long at this point that nobody could fathom that this series had never happened before but nobody thought it was particularly monumental, either.

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This gathering has never happened before at the White House.

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"Even our police station has been flooded this evening and that's never ever happened before, so all our police officers had to relocate elsewhere, " he said.

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What happened last year, when House Republicans, led by Speaker Boehner, brought this country to the brink of default had never happened before.

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Before this, that never would have happened.

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This had never occurred to me before, and my cheeks burned with frustration as I realized that this has already happened to me.

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Mr. ELSTEIN: Oh, no, nothing like this at all, and that's because it's never happened before.

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