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Rick Allen: “we have got to change it, and I think I agree with the gentleman from Arkansas. If we spend as a body, if this Congress…”

On the recordMarch 25, 1998
we have got to change it, and I think I agree with the gentleman from Arkansas. If we spend as a body, if this Congress spends 2 years and millions and millions of dollars investigating what happened in 1996 and we do nothing, no reform bill, no change, it will be an embarrassment. And we are here tonight because we do not want this House to be embarrassed. We do not want the American people to be embarrassed. We want this Congress to deal with an important, pressing issue that in our view has to be dealt with on a bipartisan basis, but under this Republican leadership bill is not being dealt with in that manner.
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Rick Allen
Republican · Georgia
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Addressing the need for reform following investigations into events from 1996.

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