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Maxwell Frost: “Mr. Speaker, I would ask the gentleman who just spoke, the gentleman from California [Mr. Cox] a question: Mr. Cox, why…”

On the recordMarch 9, 1995
Mr. Speaker, I would ask the gentleman who just spoke, the gentleman from California [Mr. Cox] a question: Mr. Cox, why did you have to change the language between the time we considered the amendment yesterday afternoon in the Rules Committee and this morning? Why wasn't the language that you really wanted before the Rules Committee when we considered the rule yesterday afternoon?
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Maxwell Frost
Democratic · Florida

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Questioning a colleague about changes made to legislative language during a debate.

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