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Howard Berman: “The question of the number of amendments that are Democratic and the number of Republican is all nonsense. Address the…”

On the recordMarch 8, 1995
The question of the number of amendments that are Democratic and the number of Republican is all nonsense. Address the issue of why you allowed the amendment that was the most extreme and none of the amendments by Republicans or Democrats that sought to refine the bill. I submit, and you will have to show me why it is not so, that you went through a systematic process of making sure no amendment that might moderate this bill, that could win, could be offered, and only amendments that could not win would be allowed. You rigged the process, until you show me otherwise, and that is the real outrage of this rule.
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Howard Berman
California
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Criticizing the amendment process during a debate on a legislative bill.

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