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Cord Byrd: “I think if there is going to be a list, it should be a complete list, and I am only raising the question because I have…”

On the recordJuly 30, 1997
I think if there is going to be a list, it should be a complete list, and I am only raising the question because I have been supplied with two different lists--one list by the minority and one by the majority--and there may be some of the same things on both lists, but I am not sure. It appears to me that some of the items on the minority list are not on the majority and perhaps vice versa. Could we have a clarification of this matter?
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Cord Byrd
Florida

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Requesting clarification on differing lists provided by the minority and majority.

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