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David Skaggs: I would simply ask the distinguished Chairman of the Rules Committee, would it not have been proper and better procedure…

On the recordApril 15, 1996
I would simply ask the distinguished Chairman of the Rules Committee, would it not have been proper and better procedure for this proposal to have at least had a hearing in the Committee on the Judiciary, so that the implications of these words, which have otherwise received no hearing other than your Rules Committee hearing on March 29, so that we could have had a careful examination of this proposal, as we did of the gentleman's proposal to amend the Constitution to protect the flag? Would that not have been better procedure?
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David Skaggs
Colorado

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Questioning the procedural handling of a constitutional amendment regarding flag desecration.

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