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Paul Coverdell: “The certification process is not perfect. The Foreign Relations Committee has committed to hearings on this. That is the…”

On the recordJuly 16, 1997
The certification process is not perfect. The Foreign Relations Committee has committed to hearings on this. That is the appropriate venue to discuss it. We should not suspend the process without the new place to go or the new system being in order. We send the wrong message at the wrong time, and I urge my colleagues not to suspend and leave no system in place.
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Paul Coverdell
Georgia

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Discussing the certification process and urging against its suspension.

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