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Dan Webster: “I'm not talking about future amendments; I'm talking about the ones already filed. There are many, many amendments. In…”

On the recordFebruary 15, 2012
I'm not talking about future amendments; I'm talking about the ones already filed. There are many, many amendments. In reviewing those, there's a process, and we're going to do that. Mr. McGOVERN. Well, I appreciate that. Let me ask the gentleman this: yesterday, we were told--well, I'm reading right now news reports that one of the problems is that one of your offsets to the payroll tax cut, which is going after Federal workers' pensions, is the same offset that you have in the highway bill. Is that the reason why this is being postponed, because the Republican leadership can't quite figure out how they're paying for any of this stuff?
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Dan Webster
Republican · Florida
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Feb 15, 2012

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