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Maxwell Frost: “This is a fatally flawed rule which should be defeated for a variety of reasons, and I want to touch on those as briefly…”

On the recordApril 28, 1999
This is a fatally flawed rule which should be defeated for a variety of reasons, and I want to touch on those as briefly as possible. First, it denies the opportunity for any Member of this House during the next 18 months to bring up anything else under the War Powers Act, no matter what happens. We tried to eliminate that in the Committee on Rules, but the majority insisted on that provision.
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Maxwell Frost
Democratic · Florida

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Opposing a rule related to the War Powers Act during House debate.

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