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Patricia Schroeder: I am standing here to say to my colleagues there is no way in the world that I can read fast enough to get through these…

On the recordFebruary 1, 1996
I am standing here to say to my colleagues there is no way in the world that I can read fast enough to get through these 6 pages of technical corrections that we received today, single-spaced, by the way, and the bill, and put it all together and have any idea what I am really reading. So I am very upset that we would waive that 3-day period, move forward, and so forth. One example of the type of things that we might uncover, let us hope that this is the only thing in there, that there would be nothing else that we would uncover, but this little nugget that we uncovered about referencing in the old COMSAT Act that people have been talking about, and that the gentleman, our chairman from Illinois and the gentlewoman from New York just had the colloquy about, was one very major thing that everybody said, oh, we did not intend to do this. Oh, my goodness, how did this happen?
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Patricia Schroeder
Colorado

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Expressing concerns about rushing a vote on technical corrections to a bill.

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