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John Rice Carter: “Reclaiming my time for just a moment, there is no bill. The President has given us no legislative language. He has only…”

On the recordFebruary 22, 2010
Reclaiming my time for just a moment, there is no bill. The President has given us no legislative language. He has only given us 12 pages of talking points of what he says he is going to propose in a bill. But I know you, and I know you very well, you are one of the guys around here who want to see the bill, see the legislative language. You go to the trouble to dig down in there. It is kind of I guess a weakness of being an old trial judge. We all want to see what is in the law before we want to rule on it. Well, there is no bill in this particular thing. There is only the President's talking points. And that is another thing. We have got to get this straight. They don't have a bill.
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John Rice Carter
Republican · Georgia
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govinfo.gov
Feb 22, 2010

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The speaker is addressing the lack of a legislative bill from the President.

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