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Trent Lott: “If you will yield, it is ISTEA, it is fast track, it is Amtrak, it is juvenile justice, it is foster care and adoption…”

On the recordOctober 23, 1997
If you will yield, it is ISTEA, it is fast track, it is Amtrak, it is juvenile justice, it is foster care and adoption, even maybe the Endangered Species Act--I have not had a chance to meet with the interested parties there--product liability. We have a lot of stuff we can do here in the next 2 weeks if we can get a process to achieve that.
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Trent Lott

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Discussing legislative priorities and potential actions in the upcoming weeks.

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