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Jerry Brown: “This was the most arbitrary action I have ever seen a chairman take when he rejected a unanimous subcommittee report and…”

On the recordMay 30, 1996
This was the most arbitrary action I have ever seen a chairman take when he rejected a unanimous subcommittee report and refused to take up the bill. And then to categorize that as corporate welfare or industrial policy or as the grants going to, I gather, Democratic contributors is the most ridiculous, absolutely false statement, which he has never been able to substantiate, that I have ever heard. A combination of arbitrariness, dictatorialness and a misuse of facts is what is ruining the activities of this committee and of the Congress as a whole to the degree it is infected by the gentleman from Pennsylvania's positions.
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Jerry Brown
California
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Addressing concerns over a chairman's rejection of a subcommittee report.

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