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Dale Bumpers: “I have to make this point one more time. The Senator talks about Don Hodel consulting with everybody. Bruce Babbitt had…”

On the recordMay 7, 1997
I have to make this point one more time. The Senator talks about Don Hodel consulting with everybody. Bruce Babbitt had 3,000 comments from the public. Why is it that Don Hodel with a few Republican Senators and Congressmen around him developed a policy--why was that so wonderful with a few people sitting behind a closed door to decide the policy, and Bruce Babbitt gets 3,000 comments? And what happens? The first thing that happens is an amendment on an emergency supplemental, which has absolutely no business being there, to stop him from implementing a ruling. Three thousand people have commented on it. It just depends on whose ox is being gored. We all know that.
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Dale Bumpers
Arkansas
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Addressing the disparity in public consultation between two government officials.

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