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Jerry Lewis: “I think he heard my comments earlier that the chair is going to support this amendment. But I must say that I do have…”

On the recordJuly 23, 1998
I think he heard my comments earlier that the chair is going to support this amendment. But I must say that I do have some understanding of the reservations by some on both sides of the aisle, I assume because this is an agency that has a tendency to have a preestablished notion as to the way the world works and as a result they go about trying to make sure that everybody understands that they are right. And that is not exactly the way science works. So that is the reservation.
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Jerry Lewis
California

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Discussing concerns about an agency's approach to science during a floor debate.

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