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Mike Levin: “It is a rather unusual thing we are doing. We are adopting an amendment which we are saying later on we know needs to be…”

On the recordJuly 10, 1995
It is a rather unusual thing we are doing. We are adopting an amendment which we are saying later on we know needs to be modified, and it is the intent of the makers to modify it. I would think it would be better to modify it before we vote.
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Mike Levin
Democratic · California

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Discussing the adoption of an amendment that requires future modification.

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