"On the first floor balcony we weren't able to use that space because there was so much mess - masses of it, " she said.

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Last year we had our first presence on the show floor, a stage with live video broadcasts all day and wild and crazy video podcasts through the night.

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"We have spent hundreds of thousands of pounds inside on the theme, we have replicated the first class dining area on the floor from old pictures, " he said.

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We were halfway back on the first set of risers above the floor.

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And I told him how much I appreciated the work he had done and that there was a direct line between that trip that we took together when I was a first-year senator and the results of the vote today on the floor.

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