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Patricia Schroeder: “Does that mean that no one else will be able to offer amendments? We have only got this 1 hour and 45 minutes and, as…”

On the recordJune 7, 1995
Does that mean that no one else will be able to offer amendments? We have only got this 1 hour and 45 minutes and, as you know, I have a very, I think, important amendment dealing with immigration, which I do not even think should be in this bill. Does that mean that we are not going to have time to get to anybody else's amendment?
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Patricia Schroeder
Colorado

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Questioning the amendment process during a legislative debate.

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