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Jerry Lewis: “I must say the point the gentleman is making is an important point. This is precisely the point that caused these…”

On the recordJune 10, 1994
I must say the point the gentleman is making is an important point. This is precisely the point that caused these Members who represent the desert to object so strenuously to the fact that the chairman of the full committee, the night before the full committee markup brought in a substitute that was his substitute without benefit of these Members seeing it beforehand. Rather than having the subcommittee deal with complex details like this, he chose to arbitrarily deal with it in the full committee. I would submit the least that could have happened with 14 new Members on your committee, that you could have had a subcommittee hearings on this process during this session of the Congress.
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Jerry Lewis
California
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Addressing concerns about committee procedures and member involvement during a markup.

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