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Porter Goss: I spent a lot of time working this over, and we talked a lot about expedited rescission, and enhanced rescission, and…

On the recordFebruary 6, 1995
I spent a lot of time working this over, and we talked a lot about expedited rescission, and enhanced rescission, and line-item veto, and the different formats, and what one of those terms used to mean, and whether one would or would not have to have a vote under an approval process, and, as I understand it, the gentleman from Texas has come up with a very good program which tries to get the best of two worlds, and I really congratulate him on that because at first sight this appears to be a very good idea, to be able to say, 'Well, we can get the tough version, and then in the outdays of the given year we can go with a simple majority vote,' and my understanding is that, if we use that process, it would come under the rulemaking powers of the House, and there is probably the single flaw that I see rise now, and maybe the gentleman will disagree with me.
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Porter Goss
Florida

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Discussing the merits of expedited rescission and the line-item veto.

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