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Karen Bass: Is it not true that either of these two suggested changes can easily be corrected in the committee of conference under…

On the recordJune 24, 1998
Is it not true that either of these two suggested changes can easily be corrected in the committee of conference under technical corrections? There is no need to worry if under the unfortunate circumstance we have a revote that these corrections will not obviously be made, because it is the intent of Congress to make this change. There are a plethora of ways that this could be fixed. The simplest way is by the insertion of the word 'operations' which the chairman objected to. I am going to propose changing a number. That is one change in one number. That would fix the problem or any potential problem. If the chairman objects there, it could still be fixed in conference or with a technical correction later. So clearly the revote, if it occurs, will be on whether or not the Members want to provide a $10 million subsidy to western cattle and ranching interests which I believe a clear majority stated yesterday they do not.
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Karen Bass
Democratic · California

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Discussing potential corrections to an amendment during a committee meeting.

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