Mike Levin: “To my good friend from New Mexico, I say there is no prohibition in this bill against them using the regular procedures.…”

“To my good friend from New Mexico, I say there is no prohibition in this bill against them using the regular procedures. So it is my assumption they would use those procedures given the absence of any prohibition. Secondly, the word ``effective'' that is in the bill, it seems to me, does include the critical operational effectiveness concept which the Senator has referred to. Indeed, the word ``effective'' could cover a number of elements of effectiveness, but surely one of them is, I believe--and the sponsor of the bill has just confirmed this, I believe--that ``operational effectiveness'' would be included in the concept of ``effectiveness.''”