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On the recordJuly 11, 1995
The question is this. Let me just read who it is that signed this before I ask the question. Secretaries of Labor, Agriculture, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, Treasury, Interior, EPA, OMB have said that this bill ``could be construed to constitute a supermandate that would override existing statutory requirements.'' Now, when you have that many folks, I would think, of average or better intelligence----
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Mike Levin
Democratic · California

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Discussing concerns about a bill's potential to override existing statutory requirements.

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