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Alan Grayson: This amendment was originally drafted to apply to both new and existing lanes. This amendment was redrawn and redrafted…

On the recordJune 9, 2014
This amendment was originally drafted to apply to both new and existing lanes. This amendment was redrawn and redrafted to specifically limit it to existing free lanes. All of the contract work that is being done in central Florida, and in fact around the country at this point, would not be affected by this amendment because it applies to only existing free lanes. My question to the gentleman from Iowa is, Did the gentleman realize that the amendment had been modified before the gentleman opposed the amendment? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Arizona controls the time.
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Alan Grayson
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Jun 9, 2014

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