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Henry Waxman: “Let me reclaim my time and just tell the gentleman, I hope he is incorrect, and I want us to work on our committee in a…”

On the recordApril 9, 1997
Let me reclaim my time and just tell the gentleman, I hope he is incorrect, and I want us to work on our committee in a bipartisan basis and to go forward together legitimately to understand the system, find abuses, hold them out to public scrutiny, learn how to reform the system that no one, I think, can defend.
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Henry Waxman
Democratic · California

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Discussing the need for bipartisan cooperation in committee work.

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