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Gus Bilirakis: “I would say that not only talking about the scientific community, but certainly the gentleman's knowledge on these areas…”

On the recordOctober 13, 1998
I would say that not only talking about the scientific community, but certainly the gentleman's knowledge on these areas certainly greatly exceeds that of ours, and I have no reason to dispute what the gentleman says. I have already indicated that what we try to do with this legislation was try to work it out with the other body, with the other side, so that we could have a piece of legislation which would be a good piece of legislation, but certainly far from perfect. So having said all of that, I assure the gentleman that we will address those issues in the next Congress.
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Gus Bilirakis
Republican · Florida

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Discussing collaboration on legislation and addressing issues in the next Congress.

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