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On the recordMay 4, 1995
I think he is absolutely correct, that as a matter of States rights many States have these procedures today. If they have them, we leave them in place. But to the extent that we change them by saying in effect they only apply to one party, we, at the Federal Government level, will have injected an element of unfairness and I just do not think we want to be a party to doing that.
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Jon Kyl
Republican · Arizona

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Discussing states' rights and fairness in federal procedures.

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