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David Skaggs: “Let us not do this fast, maybe wrong, and with ill consideration in the context of an appropriations bill. The gentleman…”

On the recordSeptember 24, 1997
Let us not do this fast, maybe wrong, and with ill consideration in the context of an appropriations bill. The gentleman has indicated that if we defeat his amendment, and presumably later on defeat the Murtha language, this will be a matter taken up, as it should be, by the committee with jurisdiction over this kind of legislation, not a quick and possibly wrong resolution of the matter on an appropriations bill. Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues to vote no on this amendment.
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David Skaggs
Colorado

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Opposing an amendment during a discussion on appropriations legislation.

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