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Howard Berman: I simply want to express my strong support for this amendment. If I were a betting man, I would have bet a lot of money…

On the recordMarch 3, 2004
I simply want to express my strong support for this amendment. If I were a betting man, I would have bet a lot of money that the chairman would not have been able to deal with the end of diversion in the fashion that he was able to without at least 25 or 30 appropriators on the House floor. I congratulate both him and the subcommittee chairman for their excellent work, and I urge the manager's amendment be adopted.
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Howard Berman
California

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Expressing support for an amendment during a committee discussion.

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